Slog vs Strive - What's the difference?
slog | strive |
(chiefly, British, and, Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
(cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
To walk slowly, encountering resistance.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
(by extension) To work slowly and deliberately (overcoming significant boredom).
To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
* Denham
To vie; to compete as a rival.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between slog and strive
is that slog is army, host while strive is (obsolete) an effort; a striving.As a verb strive is
to try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.slog
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(slogg)- A miraculous desert rain. We slog , dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
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* ----strive
English
Verb
- He strove to excel.
- to strive against fate
- to strive for the truth
- Now private pity strove with public hate, / Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
- [Not] that sweet grove / Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired / Castalian spring, might with this paradise / Of Eden strive .
