Strive vs Squabble - What's the difference?
strive | squabble |
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 participate in a minor fight or argument.
* I. Watts
(printing) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.
As verbs the difference between strive and squabble
is that strive is to try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently while squabble is to participate in a minor fight or argument.As nouns the difference between strive and squabble
is that strive is (obsolete) an effort; a striving while squabble is a minor fight or argument as between children, for example.strive
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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
* *squabble
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Derived terms
* squabblyVerb
(squabbl)- ''The brothers were always squabbling with each other.
- The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative.
- to squabble type