• IPA: /ˈstɹaɪv/

strive (strives, present participle striving; past strove, past participle striven)

1. To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.

   He strove to excel.

   to strive for the truth

2. 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.

3. 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

Related terms

• strife

Translations

• 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

Translations

• French: ≈ against combattre
• German: ≈ against ringen mit, sich einsetzen gegen
• Italian: lottare, battersi

Noun

strive (plural strives)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of strife

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