Worked vs Struggled - What's the difference?

worked | struggled |

As verbs the difference between worked and struggled

is that worked is (work) while struggled is (struggle).

As an adjective worked

is designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.

worked

English

Verb

(head)

(work)

Adjective

(-)

Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.

* 1811 , William Singers, "On the Varieties of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Peas, and Beans", Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland , page 73:

A heavy rich loam'' is, perhaps, the best of any; but ''carse'' lands, and well worked and manured ''clay soils, are also very suitable.

Wrought.

# Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.

#* 1832 , James Justinian Morier, Zorhab the Hostage , page 39:

...the light and elastic spear, made of the India bamboo, and tipped with the most perfectly worked steel, which he now held in his hand...

# Decorated or embellished; embroidered.

#* 1803 , William Alexander, The Costume of the Russian Empire , page 84:

...and many of them, at least when young, wear only a worked piece of linen over their head.

Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required.

* 1835 , R.H. Nicholls and Francis Walkingame, Taplin's Improved Edition of Walkingame's Tutor's Assistant , page 108:

Place each error opposite its supposed number, as in the worked example.

References

struggled

English

Verb

(head)

(struggle)

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