Thesaurus: wrestle

Related headwords

Definitions

1. v. t. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
2. v. t. Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
3. v. t. To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
4. n. A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.
5. n. the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
6. v. combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force
7. v. engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate
8. v. to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
9. v. engage in a wrestling match
10. 1. 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. Wiseman. 2. 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. To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling. 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.
11. n:1/v:99 n. the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat v. combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force v. engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate v. engage in a wrestling match