Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work. / Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means. / Bitter conflict, sometimes violent. / (colloquial) A trouble of any kind.

plural of strife

Full of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.

(Cockney rhyming slang, Australian rhyming slang) Wife.

Dominated by strife.

plural of trouble and strife

Free from strife.

Absence of strife.