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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



... chapter, should inspire every reader's genuine interest. Here is the memorable Crome passage: "A living master? Why, there he comes! thou hast had him long, he has long guided thy young hand towards the excellence which is yet far from thee, but which thou canst attain if thou shouldst persist and wrestle, even as he has done, midst gloom and despondency—ay, and even contempt; he who now comes up the creaking stair to thy little studio in the second floor to inspect thy last effort before thou departest, the little stout man whose face is very dark, and whose eye is vivacious; that man has attained ...
— Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration - Norwich, July 5th, 1913 • James Hooper

... Another wrestle with the problem, and still another—then an exciting moment when victory seemed in sight. Closer drew the brown heads—more earnest grew the eager voices. ...
— Glory and the Other Girl • Annie Hamilton Donnell

... called because it comprised five exercises. The competitors were to leap, run from one end of the stadion to the other, make a long throw of the metal discus, hurl the javelin, and wrestle. ...
— History Of Ancient Civilization • Charles Seignobos

... there, couple miles behind you, maybe I saw your father get up and try to wrestle him, so I suspected there was kind of a disagreement. Say, Miss Boltwood, you know when you spoke to me—way back there—I hadn't meant to butt in. Honest. I thought maybe as ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis

... of John,—the touching account of the raising of Lazarus, St. Clare read it aloud, often pausing to wrestle down feelings which were roused by the pathos of the story. Tom knelt before him, with clasped hands, and with an absorbed expression of love, trust, adoration, on ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe


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