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{
"term": "strive",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "strive",
"heSheIt": "strives"
},
"pastSimple": "strove",
"pastParticiple": "striven",
"ingForm": "striving"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to try very hard to achieve something",
"sensetop": "strive for somethingstrive after/towards somethingstrive against somethingstrive to do something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We encourage all members to strive for the highest standards.",
"contextForm": "strive for something"
},
{
"text": "They were always striving towards perfection.",
"contextForm": "strive after/towards something"
},
{
"text": "striving against corruption",
"contextForm": "strive against something"
},
{
"text": "Newspaper editors all strive to be first with a story.",
"contextForm": "strive to do something"
},
{
"text": "She strove to find a solution that was acceptable to all."
},
{
"text": "They are desperately striving for some sort of dignity."
},
{
"text": "I am constantly striving after artistic beauty."
},
{
"text": "man striving against the elements"
},
{
"text": "Experimenters continually strive to eliminate distorting factors."
}
],
"topics": ["Success"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["hard", "mightily", "desperately"],
"preposition": ["after", "against", "for"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/straɪv/",
"audio": "st/strive/strive__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/straɪvz/",
"audio": "st/strive/strives__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/strəʊv/",
"audio": "st/strive/strove__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/straɪvd/",
"audio": "st/strive/strived__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈstrɪvn/",
"audio": "st/strive/striven__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈstraɪvɪŋ/",
"audio": "st/strive/striving__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/straɪv/",
"audio": "st/strive/strive__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/straɪvz/",
"audio": "st/strive/strives__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/strəʊv/",
"audio": "st/strive/strove__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/straɪvd/",
"audio": "st/strive/strived__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈstrɪvn/",
"audio": "st/strive/striven__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈstraɪvɪŋ/",
"audio": "st/strive/striving__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: shortening of Old French estriver; related to estrif ‘strife’."
}