struggled
STRUG-uhld/ˈstɹʌɡl̩d/
- 1Simple past and past participle of struggle.
He struggled with the math problem for nearly an hour.
They had struggled for years before the business finally turned a profit.
Note
One regular -ed spelling does double duty: it is the plain past (she struggled) and, after have, the perfect (she had struggled). Because the verb rarely takes a direct object, a passive is uncommon. The meaning is carried by prepositions instead: struggled with a problem, struggled against an opponent, struggled for a cause.
struggled is a form of struggle
struggle, verb: To have difficulty doing, managing, or understanding something. Full entry
- Forms
- strugglestruggles he/she/itstruggling -ing formstruggled past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- struggle → struggled: add -d
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