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What sumoists do
Answer for the clue "What sumoists do ", 7 letters:
wrestle
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force; "He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority" engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate; "I wrestled with this decision for years" to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English *wræstlian , frequentative of wræstan "to wrest" (see wrest ). Compare North Frisian wrassele , Middle Low German worstelen . Figurative sense is recorded from early 13c. Related: Wrestled ; wrestling .
Usage examples of wrestle.
Maigret stood up, saw two men wrestling on the floor on the other side of the overturned table, while the woman was in the act of picking up an andiron from the fireplace.
Dennis Hastert of Illinois, a stocky former wrestling coach who was quite conservative but less abrasive and confrontational than Gingrich, Armey, and DeLay.
In competition they wrestled and leaped and threw the tomahawk, lance or atlatl dart.
Lucy thought it made us look like burglars and told me to go back and put it on top of the car, which meant five more minutes wrestling with bendy bungies.
Nokomis And Iagoo, the great boaster, Showed them where the maize was growing, Told them of his wondrous vision, Of his wrestling and his triumph, Of this new gift to the nations, Which should be their food forever.
She passed a board that was covered with quantum equations, another, half-erased already, that held only two clean and concise Bussard drive efficiency calculations, the kind Li had wrestled with in her OCS math courses.
The simian Cabalist continued to wrestle with the lifeless reptile until he realized Deidre had ended his fun.
I could not lift my elbow above shoulder-level, and I lost my title in Indian wrestling to Chubby in the bar of the Lord Nelson.
She helped me wrestle Thandbar to the floor before I began a twisting, pushing, turning circumambulation of the device, moving everything movable upon it.
In that moment of his dazedness, the Cumberian leaped, caught his arms, wrestled him toward the bole of the great black oak.
That fearful crew of fiery-headed pirates, and those genially brazen hands of Wulfhere who was big enow to wrestle bulls for pastime!
Wrestling and the roller-derby as blood sports, the routinization of femicide in the detective tale, the standardization at one million per year of traffic fatalities, the wholesome interest of our youth in gang rumbles, all point toward the Age of Hate and Death.
Wrestling and the roller-derby as blood sports, the rou-tinization of femicide in the detective tale, the standardization at one million per year of traffic fatalities, the wholesome interest of our youth in gang rumbles, all point toward the Age of Hate and Death.
He grabbed the man by the throat, twisting his head hard as he dragged him to the ground the way he would wrestle a troll.
Dropping her knee onto his hyperextended arm freed her left hand, allowing her to wrestle the knife from his grip.