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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



... Burwell to be a nobler woman than Juliet, and yet he never found himself regarding Sally through an outward and visible veil of her virtues. Even Tom Bassett, who was married to her, had lost the lover in the husband, as his emotions had matured into domestic sentiment. Galt had seen Sally wrestle for a day with one of her father's headaches, to be rewarded by less gratitude than Juliet would receive for the mere laying of a white finger on his temple—Sally's services were looked upon by those who loved her best as one of the daily ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... Godspeed till the echoes cease 'Fore all may the nation choose her To speak her will for peace. That she in the hour of battle Her western fangs may show. That from her broadsides' rattle A listening world may know— She's more than a fighting vessel, More than mere moving steel, More than a hull to wrestle With the currents at her keel; That she bodies a living-spirit. The spirit of a state, A people's strength and merit, Their hope, their love, ...
— The California Birthday Book • Various
... wage no war, we lift no arm, we fling no torch within The fire-clamps of the quaking mine beneath your soil of sin; We leave ye with your bondmen, to wrestle, while ye can, With the strong upward tendencies ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... light as a panther Shefford leaped upon the man and, fastening powerful hands round the thick neck, bore him to his knees and bent back his head over the rail. There was a convulsive struggle, a hard flinging of arms, a straining wrestle, and then Willetts was in a dreadful position. Shefford held him in ...
— The Rainbow Trail • Zane Grey
... the sweat of the crisis has come. One touches with one's naked hand every object he describes. One feels the gasping breath of every person he brings forward. His images slap one's cheeks till they tingle, and his situations wrestle with one ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys


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