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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



... armed to wrestle with the storm, To fight for homely truth with vulgar power; Grace looked from every feature, shaped his form, The ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... would not wish a head to follow me and leap up on the table and wrestle me, or to drink against me ...
— New Irish Comedies • Lady Augusta Gregory
... more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the thews that wrestle with the world; She, mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last they set them each to each, Like perfect music unto noble words. Then comes ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various
... Children of the Wise. Yet in the council with the gods no one will falter to pursue His lofty purpose, but come forth the cyclic labours to renew; And take the burden of the world and dim his beauty in a shroud, And wrestle with the chaos till the anarch to the light be bowed. We cannot for forgetfulness forego the reverence due to them Who wear at times they do not guess the sceptre and the diadem. As bright a crown as this was theirs when first they from ...
— By Still Waters - Lyrical Poems Old and New • George William Russell
... in this wrestle with pain. How many she did not know, but when she came forth it was with the composure of one who had fought the fight and won the victory, but at a cost ...
— The Red Acorn • John McElroy


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