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past tense of struggle
Synonyms & Antonyms of struggled
1
to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually
- each week I would struggle through my piano lesson, keenly aware that I wasn't getting any better
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2
to devote serious and sustained effort
- the financially strapped couple struggled to make ends meet
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Phrases Synonymous with struggled
- sweat blood
- (or sweated blood)
Near Antonyms for struggled
- bummed,
- chilled,
- dallied,
- dillydallied,
- footled,
- goldbricked,
- goofed (off),
- hacked (around),
- hung (around or out)
- (also hanged (around or out)),
- idled,
- lazed,
- loafed,
- lounged,
- shirked,
- slacked (off),
- vegged out
- dabbled,
- doodled,
- fooled around,
- fribbled,
- goofed (around),
- hung
- (also hanged),
- hung about
- [British],
- messed around,
- monkeyed (around),
- played,
- pottered (around),
- puttered (around),
- trifled
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