Strive vs Ensure - What's the difference?
strive | ensure |
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
To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
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To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
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As verbs the difference between strive and ensure
is that strive is to try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently while ensure is to make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.As a noun strive
is (obsolete) an effort; a striving.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 .
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See * The strong or irregular forms "strove" and "striven" are more commonly used in print than "strived".External links
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English
Verb
(ensur)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}