Synonyms:
endeavor, endeavour, strive
Meaning: attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy"
Synonyms:
strive, reach, strain
Meaning: to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear"
Usage examples
Strive to see it in the right light."
'The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
But strive as they would they might not enforce themselves more than they were able.
Strive to find a plan by which we may speak as friend to friend, if you would have me live.
When they are obliged to yield to the former, they strive at least to escape from the latter.
Strive to increase the variety of your speech as the business man labors to augment his wealth.
In all social relations strive to throw your influence for that which is faithful, sincere, kind, generous, and just.
Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.
Be natural--but improve your natural gifts until you have approached the ideal, for we must strive after idealized nature, in fruit, tree, and speech.
With what endless care, with what unsparing labour, do we not strive to get together for our great national council the men most fitting to compose it.