- Contend - Contest for control - Ongoing fight - strenuous effort - Strenuous exertion or effort - Strive - To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or
with contortions of the body.
- Bring to bear - Exercise - Indexer tries to contain exercise - Make a great effort to halve the exercise with team leader - Make a strenuous effort - Make an effort, ... oneself - Put into vigorous action