Strikes vs Strives - What's the difference?
strikes | strives |
(strive)
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 verbs the difference between strikes and strives
is that strikes is (strike) while strives is (strive).As a noun strikes
is .strives
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*strive
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- 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 .