Word Meanings - GAINSTRIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To strive or struggle against; to withstand. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to GAINSTRIVE)

• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• STRUGGLER
  One who struggles.
• STRIVE
  1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. Was for this his ambition strove To equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove Cowley. 2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest;
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• STRIVEN
  p. p. of Strive.
• STRIVED
  Striven. Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel. Rom. xv. 20.
• STRUGGLE
  to flog, Sw. stryka to stroke, to strike, Dan. stryge, G. straucheln 1. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. 2. To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to
• WITHSTAND
  To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments. Piers Plowman. I withstood him to the face. Gal. ii. 11. Some village Hampden, that,
• STRIVER
  One who strives.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• WITHSTANDER
  One who withstands, or opposes; an opponent; a resisting power.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• RESTRIVE
  To strive anew.
• GAINSTRIVE
  To strive or struggle against; to withstand. Spenser.
• NOTWITHSTANDING
  Without prevention, or obstruction from or by; in spite of. We gentil women bee Loth to displease any wight, Notwithstanding our great right. Chaucer's Dream. Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude