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Definition of tussle verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

tussle

verb
 
/ˈtʌsl/
 
/ˈtʌsl/
[intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they tussle
 
/ˈtʌsl/
 
/ˈtʌsl/
he / she / it tussles
 
/ˈtʌslz/
 
/ˈtʌslz/
past simple tussled
 
/ˈtʌsld/
 
/ˈtʌsld/
past participle tussled
 
/ˈtʌsld/
 
/ˈtʌsld/
-ing form tussling
 
/ˈtʌslɪŋ/
 
/ˈtʌslɪŋ/
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  1. tussle (with somebody/something) to fight or compete with somebody/something, especially in order to get something
    • The children were tussling with one another for the ball.
    Topics Opinion and argumentc2
    Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb, originally Scots and northern English): perhaps a diminutive of dialect touse ‘handle roughly’ of Germanic origin and related to German zausen.
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