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Wrestle   /rˈɛsəl/   Listen
Wrestle

verb
(past & past part. wrestled; pres. part. wrestling)
1.
Combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force.
2.
Engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate.
3.
To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling).  Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wriggle, writhe.  "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"
4.
Engage in a wrestling match.
noun
1.
The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat.  Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestling.  "We watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully"



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"Wrestle" Quotes from Famous Books



... I wrestle not with rage While fury's flame doth burn; It is in vain to stop the stream Until the tide ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... ever since he had been flogged about an unintelligible book when he was a boy. But to think that a young fellow like Dolph, of such wonderful abilities, who could shoot, fish, run, jump, ride, and wrestle, should be obliged, to roll pills and administer juleps for a living—'twas monstrous! He told Dolph never to despair, but to "throw physic to the dogs;" for a young fellow of his prodigious talents could never fail to make his way. "As you seem to have no acquaintance ...
— Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • Washington Irving
... of the most romantic kind. No boy will be able to withstand the magic of such scenes as the fight of Grettir with the twelve bearserks, the wrestle with Karr the Old in the chamber of the dead, the combat with the spirit of Glam the thrall, and the defence of the dying Grettir by his ...
— Condemned as a Nihilist - A Story of Escape from Siberia • George Alfred Henty
... colonel, who was feebly trying to rise, his wrestle with the black having crippled his wounded leg and arm, I helped him to his feet as quickly as I could, while others clustered round to ...
— The Ghost Ship - A Mystery of the Sea • John C. Hutcheson
... while they released themselves from their cords and arranged their instruments, seems to have been succeeded by an outburst of spirits; for in the journal of the youngest of the party, Francois de Pourtales, then a lad of seventeen, we read: "The guides began to wrestle and we to dance, when suddenly we saw a female chamois, followed by her young, ascending a neighboring slope, and presently four or five more stretched their necks over a rock, as if to see what was going on. Breathless ...
— Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence • Louis Agassiz


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