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Straggle
- noun - a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons); "a straggle of outbuildings"; "a straggle of followers"
- go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; "Branches straggling out quite far"
- wander from a direct or straight course
Strangle
- verb - conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- die from strangulation
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"
- prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
Strapple
- - To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle.
Strickle
- noun - a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure
- a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand
- an implement for sharpening scythes
- level off with a strickle in a measuring container; "strickle sand"
- smooth with a strickle; "strickle the grain in the measure"
Strigate
- - Having transverse bands of color.
Strigine
- - Of or pertaining to owls; owl-like.
Strigose
- - Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.
Strobile
- noun - cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
Strockle
- - A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc.
Struggle
- noun - an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition"
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country"
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath"
- strenuous effort; "the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her"
- to exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope"