Crossword-Solution: STRIVE 6 letters, 87 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Strive v. i. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with
earnestness; to labor hard.
Strive v. i. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or
dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before
the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for
the truth.
Strive v. i. To vie; to compete; to be a rival.
Strive n. An effort; a striving.
Strive n. Strife; contention.

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STRIVE anagram RIVETS, STIVER, VERIST

We have 87 clues for the answer “STRIVE”

Clue Answers
Make a concerted effort 1 answer
Make a big effort 1 answer
Fight mightily 1 answer
Exert much effort 1 answer
Do one's utmost 1 answer
Devote much effort 1 answer
Attempt with effort 1 answer
"To ___, to seek, to find, and not to yield" 1 answer
Make a game effort 1 answer
Make huge efforts 1 answer
Try and try 1 answer
Try super hard 1 answer
Try, with great effort 1 answer
Vie (for) 1 answer
Word from Old French for "compete" 1 answer
to endeavour or strain for something above or beyond 1 answer
to exert much effort or energy 1 answer
to endeavor or strain for something above or beyond 1 answer
to endeavor or strain for something above and beyond 1 answer
straining our ears to hear 1 answer
Make a great effort 2 answers
HAVE ambition 2 answers
Make a valiant effort 2 answers
Go to great lengths? 2 answers
An earnest attempt to achieve something 2 answers
LABOUR hard 2 answers
Exert effort. 3 answers
Work hard (for) 3 answers
Try really hard 3 answers
Really try 3 answers
Do one's ___ best 3 answers
SEEK to attain 4 answers
Make every effort 4 answers
Try very hard 5 answers
Seek (after). 5 answers
APPLY weight 5 answers
Exert oneself 5 answers
Shoot (for) 5 answers
Bend over backward 5 answers
PUT forth effort 6 answers
Fight (for) 6 answers
Aim (to) 7 answers
Put up a fight 7 answers
Try hard 7 answers
Go all out 8 answers
Try (for) 8 answers
Try to Equal 8 answers
scrummage 10 answers
clamber 10 answers
COLLOQUIALLY CONTEND 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with STRIVE (5)

The happier state In Heav’n, which follows dignity, might draw Envy from each inferior; but who here Will envy whom the highest place exposes Formost to stand against the Thunderers aime Your bulwark, and condemns to greatest share Of endless pain? where there is then no good For which to strive, no strife can grow up there From Faction; for none sure will claim in hell Precedence, none, whose portion is so small Of present pain, that with ambitious mind Will covet more.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Any account of the loyalty of young hearts to some exalted ideal, and the passion with which they strive, will always, in some of us, rekindle generous emotions.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Given the chaos concerning standards, which promises to linger for the foreseeable future, BATTIN urged adoption of the following general principles: * Strive to understand the changing information requirements of scholarly disciplines as more and more technology is integrated into the process of research and scholarly communication in order to meet future scholarly needs, not to build for the past.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
But by your scheme, all this is abolished; he is degraded to a machine, he is a nobody, his noble prides wither to mere vanities; let him strive as he may, he can never be any better than his humblest and stupidest neighbor; he would never be cheerful again, his life would not be worth the living.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Ethics is a social moving target that must con- stantly be re-examined as we as a civilized people grow and strive to maintain our innate humanity." "So you equate hacking and ethics, in the same breath?" Scott asked.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

Quotes with STRIVE (3)

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Paulo Coelho The Alchemist
By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system. I have termed this constitutive characteristic "the self-transcendence of human existence." It denotes the fact that being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself--be it a meaning to fulfill…
Viktor E. Frankl Man's Search for Meaning
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
Albert Einstein
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 70 times in crossword archives (1969–2025).