From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstrivestrive /straɪv/ ●○○ verb (past tense strove /strəʊv $ stroʊv/, past participle striven /ˈstrɪvən/) [intransitive] formal TRY TO DO OR GET somethingto make a great effort to achieve somethingstrive to do something I was still striving to be successful.strive for/after We must continue to strive for greater efficiency.► see thesaurus at try —striving noun [countable, uncountable]→ See Verb table
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strive• She strove daily to be the perfect wife.• The film strives for a surface kind of cynicism, only to invoke the Love Conquers All escape clause in the end.• The company must constantly strive for greater efficiency.• They commit themselves to strive for its elimination.• The many affirmations are either on what the self or others should strive for-to do or to become.• It defines what is important, worthwhile and worth striving for.• Toni has been striving to achieve musical recognition for the past ten years.• Which - she strove to be positive - left her the whole day in which to take her ease in Mariánské Láznë.• Even when the judicial structure does strive to maintain some political independence, it still might respond to political pressure.• Indeed the Customer Service Charter featured below sets out the level of service we strive to sustain.strive to do something• From now on, she thought, I shall strive to be virtuous.• Science is therefore public, or at least normally strives to be.• It was a more than intellectual comprehension; and to write of it she must strive to become that meeting.• But that is what we must all now strive to do.• With this feat of derring-doze, Wadlough is striving to expand his portfolio.• We always strove to get a solution that was acceptable all round.• The film studio is striving to improve its public image.• He strove to make it sporting.• With its prestige threatened, Yale strives to re-gentrify the center city.Origin strive (1100-1200) Old French estriver 