{
    "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’."
}