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Strive vs Seeking - What's the difference?

strive | seeking |

As verbs the difference between strive and seeking

is that strive is to try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently while seeking is .

As nouns the difference between strive and seeking

is that strive is (obsolete) an effort; a striving while seeking is the act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something.

As an adjective seeking is

(in combination) that seeks something specified.

strive

English

Verb

  • To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
    • He strove to excel.
  • To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
    • to strive against fate
    to strive for the truth
  • * Denham
    • Now private pity strove with public hate, / Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
  • To vie; to compete as a rival.
  • * Milton
    • [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".

    Related terms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An effort; a striving.
    • (Chapman)
  • (obsolete) strife; contention

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    * * English control verbs English irregular verbs

    seeking

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something.
  • * 1873 , Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine (volume 9, page 269)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (in combination) that seeks something specified

    • Derived terms

    * heat-seeking * self-seeking

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1948 , , North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States , J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25,
    • While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.