painful struggle

collocation in English

meaningsofpainfulandstruggle

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painful
adjective
uk
/ˈpeɪn.fəl/us
/ˈpeɪn.fəl/
causing emotional or ...
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struggle
noun[C]
uk
/ˈstrʌɡ.əl/us
/ˈstrʌɡ.əl/
a very difficult task that you can do only by making a ...
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(Definition ofpainfulandstrugglefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They have had a difficult andpainfulstruggleand the credit belongs to them.
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Ill health reduces daily living to a remorseless andpainfulstrugglefor survival.
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We are embarked on no quick or flashy transformation but on a long and at timespainfulstruggletowards real efficiency, real competitiveness and real profitability.
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To them life is apainfulstruggle, especially for their wives who have to try to operate the household budget and to feed and clothe their children.
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As an artist he was remarkably prolific in the last years of his life despite a protracted andpainfulstrugglewith terminal cancer.
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Musical creation for him always proved to be a long,painfulstruggle.
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A protracted andpainfulstrugglewith infertility seems to be part of the answer.
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The idea that life is one continuouspainfulstrugglewhich can end only when life itself ends, is a recurring theme in his poetry.
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After a similar alternation of anguish and resignation, the orchestra, as though drained by such apainfulstruggle, plays only fragments of the main theme and collapses in exhaustion.
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They readily suggested we studied all agencies whose founders had interesting stories to tell, including success cases, painful struggles, or mixed experiences in overcoming problems.
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