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verb

Wrestle v. t. To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.

Wrestle v. i. (past & past part. wrestled; pres. part. wrestling)

To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. "To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well." "Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum."

Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend. "Come, wrestle with thy affections." "We wrestle not against flesh and blood." "Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled."

noun

Wrestle n. A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle. "Whom in a wrestle the giant catching aloft, with a terrible hug broke three of his ribs."

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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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