1. To make efforts to use exertions to endeavor with earnestness to labor hard applicable to exertions of body or mind. A workman strives to perform his task before another a student strives to excel his fellows in improvement.

Was it for this that his ambition strove to equal Cesar first, and after Jove?

Strive with me in your prayers to God for me. Romans 15 .

Strive to enter in at the strait gate. Luke 8 .

2. To contend to contest to struggle in opposition to another to be in contention or dispute followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed as, strive against temptation strive for the truth.

My spirit shall not always strive with man. Genesis 6 .

3. To oppose by contrariety of qualities.

Now private pity strove with public hate, reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.

4. To vie to be comparable to to emulate to contend in excellence.

Not that sweet grove of Daphne by Orontes, and the inspird Castalian spring, might with this paradise of Eden strive.

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