Crossword clues for wrestle
wrestle
- Get a lock on, e.g.
- The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
- Emulate Gorgeous George
- Try for a pin
- Contend with
- Engage in a sport
- Grapple; strive
- Wriggle - wrangle
- Some now restless to fight
- Go for the pin
- Engage in one-on-one combat, in a way
- Engage in one-on-one combat
- Engage in a smackdown
- Wriggle — wrangle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrestle \Wres"tle\, v. t. To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
Wrestle \Wres"tle\, 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.
--Milton.
Wrestle \Wres"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wrestled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrestling.] [OE. wrestlen, wrastlen, AS. wr?stlian, freq. of wr?stan to wrest; akin to OD. wrastelen to wrestle. See Wrest, v. t.]
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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.
--Shak.Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.
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Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
Come, wrestle with thy affections.
--Shak.We wrestle not against flesh and blood.
--Eph. vi. 12.Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled.
--M. Arnold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A wrestling bout. 2 A struggle. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise defeat him, depending on the specific rules of the contest 2 (context intransitive English) To struggle or strive 3 (context transitive English) To take part in a wrestling match with someone 4 (context transitive English) To move or lift something with difficulty 5 (context transitive English) To throw a calf etc in order to brand it 6 (context transitive English) To fight
WordNet
n. the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat; "they had a fierce wrestle"; "we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully" [syn: wrestling, grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle]
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 when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace" [syn: writhe, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist]
engage in a wrestling match; "The children wrestled in the garden"
Wikipedia
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.