strives

Meaning of strives

verb, 3rd person present
  1. make great efforts to achieve or obtain something.
    national movements were striving for independence
    we must strive to secure steady growth

Middle English: shortening of Old French estriver ; related to estrif ‘strife’.

Information about strives

  • It is a verb.
  • The singular form of strives is: strife.
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Hyphenation of strives

strives

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • strives is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of strives

servist, stivers, treviss, verists

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