Crossword clues for wrestled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: wrestle)
Usage examples of "wrestled".
They played games on the cool dark tiles, dangled by their hands from the courtyard balconies, wrestled and fought like two tiger cubs, and learned to love every inch of the kingdom that would be theirs.
He snatched her hands away from his cheeks before she could do any damage, then wrestled her around until she was beneath him, his weight holding her captive.
Cord wrestled them back onto the roughly paved secondary road, but they could proceed at nothing more than a crawl.
He’d slept in that bed with Diane, made love to her, wrestled with the boys on early Saturday mornings when they came running in to wake him up.
He was swearing viciously as he wrestled with the snake, mostly astride her as she writhed on the ground, struggling to free herself.
They wrestled for control of the nozzle, both of them laughing and yelling as the icy water sprayed all over them.
She held the gelding so that it matched strides with Sophie and awkwardly wrestled the rifle around.
Nor did she protest when he slid his hand to her bottom and arched her forward, nestling his hardness in the notch of her legs as he had done the day he'd wrestled her to the ground.
Though he was half a foot taller than she and some fifty pounds heavier, somehow she had wrestled and bullied the boy into her truck and taken him to the local clinic, where Doc Nowacki discovered that the flu had progressed into pneumonia and quickly transferred Chance to the nearest hospital, eighty miles away.
He wrestled it open, wincing at the scraping noise, even though he knew it wouldn't carry to where the kidnappers were.
With her back turned to him as she wrestled with the stubborn lock, she was suddenly acutely aware of the press of his body against her buttocks.
But he’d pretty much sailed unscathed through the rough seas of romance, unlike the rest of them who wrestled with the conflicts between job and relationships, so it was nice to see him squirming now.
She wrestled the heavy white pages into her lap and clumsily flipped through to the Ws.
They wrestled in the halls, upsetting carts, dumping files and charts everywhere, waking patients who then either became alarmed or decided they needed more pain medication.
She lunged for the hose, and he wrestled her back into place, pinning her to the Viper with his weight.