Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈstɹaɪv/
strive (strives, present participle striving; past strove, past participle striven)
- To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
- He strove to excel.
- to strive for the truth
- To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
- to strive against fate
- Now private pity strove with public hate, / Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
- To vie; to compete as a rival.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- [Not] that sweet grove / Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired / Castalian spring, might with this paradise / Of Eden strive.
conjugation of strive
| infinitive | strive | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | striving | ||||||||||
| past participle | striven | ||||||||||
| simple | progressive | perfect | perfect progressive | ||||||||
| present | I strive | we strive | I am striving | we are striving | I have striven | we have striven | I have been striving | we have been striving | |||
| you strive | you strive | you are striving | you are striving | you have striven | you have striven | you have been striving | you have been striving | ||||
| he strives | they strive | he is striving | they are striving | he has striven | they have striven | he has been striving | they have been striving | ||||
| past | I strove | we strove | I was striving | we were striving | I had striven | we had striven | I had been striving | we had been striving | |||
| you strove | you strove | you were striving | you were striving | you had striven | you had striven | you had been striving | you had been striving | ||||
| he strove | they strove | he was striving | they were striving | he had striven | they had striven | he had been striving | they had been striving | ||||
| future | I will strive | we will strive | I will be striving | we will be striving | I will have striven | we will have striven | I will have been striving | we will have been striving | |||
| you will strive | you will strive | you will be striving | you will be striving | you will have striven | you will have striven | you will have been striving | you will have been striving | ||||
| he will strive | they will strive | he will be striving | they will be striving | he will have striven | they will have striven | he will have been striving | they will have been striving | ||||
| conditional | I would strive | we would strive | I would be striving | we would be striving | I would have striven | we would have striven | I would have been striving | we would have been striving | |||
| you would strive | you would strive | you would be striving | you would be striving | you would have striven | you would have striven | you would have been striving | you would have been striving | ||||
| he would strive | they would strive | he would be striving | they would be striving | he would have striven | they would have striven | he would have been striving | they would have been striving | ||||
| imperative | strive | ||||||||||
- French: s'efforcer
- German: streben, sich bemühen, sich anstrengen, ringen um, sich einsetzen für
- Italian: sforzarsi, cercare, ambire, arrabattarsi, ingegnarsi, adoperarsi
- Portuguese: esforçar-se, batalhar
- Russian: стреми́ться
- Spanish: esforzarse, afanarse
- French: ≈ against combattre
- German: ≈ against ringen mit, sich einsetzen gegen
- Italian: lottare, battersi
strive (plural strives)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of strife
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