Definition of "striven" [striv•en]

• Past participle of strive (verb)

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• "Vainly had Silverstein striven to stay the spouse's wrath."
• "Unlike Alcibiades, who had brought destruction everywhere, he, Hadrian, had governed a world infinitely larger ... and had kept pace therein; I had rigged it like a fair ship made ready for a voyage which might last for centuries; I had striven my utmost to encourage in man the sense of the divine but without at the same time sacrificing to it what is essentially human."
• "Since then, various governments have striven to conceal this."