Struggle vs Fright - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between struggle and fright

is that struggle is strife, contention, great effort while fright is a state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

As verbs the difference between struggle and fright

is that struggle is to strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for'' or ''against ), to contend while fright is (archaic) to frighten.

struggle

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

Strife, contention, great effort.

*, chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground. He worked night and day to supplement it.}}

Verb

(struggl)

To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for'' or ''against ), to contend.

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport

, title= Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , passage=England were ponderous with ball in hand, their runners static when taking the ball and their lines obvious, while their front row struggled badly in the scrum.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

fright

English

Noun

(wikipedia fright)

A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2:

With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.

Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.

* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:

Her maids were old, and if she took a new one,

You might be sure she was a perfect fright ;

She did this during even her husband's life

I recommend as much to every wife.

Derived terms

* fright wig

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) to frighten