Related Words for struggling

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troubled
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Adjective, Adjective
failing
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Verb
trying
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Verb
desperate
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Adjective
battling
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Verb
helping
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Verb
striving
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Noun
floundering
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Noun
unable
x/x
Adjective
faltering
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Adjective
wanting
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Verb
attempting
x/x
Verb
able
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Adjective
working
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Verb
coping
/x
Noun
difficult
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Adjective
needing
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Verb
scrambling
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Verb
hard
/
Adjective
hurting
/x
Verb
still
/
Adverb
surviving
x/x
Verb
forced
/
Verb
unwilling
x/x
Adjective
thriving
/x
Adjective
stuck
/
Verb
seeking
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Verb
fighting
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Noun
tough
/
Adjective
going
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Verb
dying
/x
Verb
managing
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Noun
persevering
xx/x
Adjective
improving
x/x
Verb
looking
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Verb
reluctant
x/x
Adjective
revive
x/
Verb
succeed
x/
Verb
reinvigorate
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Verb
adapt
x/
Verb
competing
x/x
Verb
starting
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Verb
declining
x/x
Verb
challenging
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Adjective
stymied
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Verb
overcome
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Verb
eager
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Adjective
laboring
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Noun
stabilize
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Verb
flailing
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Verb
embattled
x/x
Adjective
revitalize
x/xx
Verb
reconcile
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Verb
anxious
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Adjective
finding
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Noun
suffering
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Noun
vying
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Verb
prospering
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Verb
willing
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Adjective
sustain
x/
Verb
refusing
x/x
Verb
afflicted
x/x
Verb
frustrated
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Adjective
keen
/
Adjective
contending
x/x
Noun
dealing
/x
Verb
continuing
x/xx
Verb
experiencing
x/xxx
Verb
hoping
/x
Verb
readjust
xx/
Verb
differentiate
xx/xx
Verb
impoverished
x/x
Adjective
ailing
/x
Adjective
beleaguered
x/x
Adjective
assist
x/
Verb
overwhelmed
xx/
Verb
regain
x/
Verb
recovering
x/xx
Verb
understand
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Verb
scuffling
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Noun
disadvantaged
xx/x
Adjective
straining
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Verb
futilely
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Adverb
losing
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Verb
sympathize
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Verb
burdened
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Verb
unsure
x/
Adjective
figuring
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Verb
adjust
x/
Verb
develop
x/x
Verb
doomed
/
Verb
could
/
Verb, Noun
unhappy
x/x
Adjective
toiling
/x
Verb
living
/x
Noun
deciding
x/x
Verb
confused
x/
Verb
preoccupied
x/xx
Verb
confront
x/
Verb
downtrodden
x/x
Noun
facing
/x
Verb
compelled
x/
Verb
starving
/x
Verb
encouraging
x/xx
Adjective
bothering
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Verb
languishing
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Adjective
muddling
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Verb
difficulty
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Noun
desperation
xx/x
Noun
loser
/x
Noun
harrowing
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Noun
rebelling
x/x
Verb
daunting
/x
Adjective
complaining
x/x
Verb
underdog
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Noun
sulking
/x
Verb
grudging
/x
Adjective
shirking
/x
Noun
regretting
x/x
Verb
cursing
/x
Verb
bemoaning
x/x
Verb
trials and tribulations
//xx/x
Phrase, Noun
slouch
/
Noun
problem
/x
Noun
reluctance
x/x
Noun
travail
x/
Noun
depressive
x/x
Adjective
frustration
x/x
Noun
denying
x/x
Verb
wandering
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Verb
disquieting
x/xx
Adjective
upsetting
x/x
Verb
reproaching
x/x
Verb
paralytic
xx/x
Adjective
baffling
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Adjective
plight
/
Noun
frowning
/x
Verb
fly
/
Noun
country
/x
Noun
manfully
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Adverb
valiantly
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Adverb
heroically
x/xx
Adverb
vainly
/x
Adverb
mightily
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Adverb
eke
/
Verb
gamely
/x
Adverb
feebly
/x
Adverb
adversity
x/xx
Noun
free
/
Verb
apolitical
xx/xx
Adjective, Noun
beating
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Noun
campaigning
x/x
Noun
colonising
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Verb, Noun
combating
x/x
Verb
combative
x/x
Adjective
deadlocked
/x
Adjective
debating
x/x
Noun
defaulting
x/x
Noun
distressed
x/
Adjective
endeavouring
x/xx
Noun
every
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Noun
evil
/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
flagging
/x
Adjective, Noun
fractious
/x
Adjective
fretful
/x
Adjective
grappling
/x
Noun
happy
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
irreligious
xx/x
Adjective
jihad
/x
Noun, Verb
loving
/x
Adjective, Noun
militant
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Adjective, Noun
seeming
/x
Adjective, Noun
sentence
/x
Noun, Verb
stalled
/
Verb
stumbling
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Noun
unenlightened
xx/x
Adjective
warring
/x
Adjective, Noun
whole
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
wrangling
/xx
Noun
wrestling
/x
Noun
fall
/
Verb, Noun
blow
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
pidgin
/x
Noun
off
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
gloss
/
Noun, Verb
backwater
/xx
Noun, Verb
stonewall
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Name, Verb, Adjective