wrestle
verb/ˈresl/
/ˈresl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they wrestle | /ˈresl/ /ˈresl/ |
| he / she / it wrestles | /ˈreslz/ /ˈreslz/ |
| past simple wrestled | /ˈresld/ /ˈresld/ |
| past participle wrestled | /ˈresld/ /ˈresld/ |
| -ing form wrestling | /ˈreslɪŋ/ /ˈreslɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to fight somebody by holding them and trying to throw or force them to the ground, sometimes as a sport
- As a boy he had boxed and wrestled.
- wrestle with somebody Armed guards wrestled with the intruder.
- She tried to wrestle with her attacker.
- wrestle somebody (+ adv./prep.) Shoppers wrestled the raider to the ground.
- [intransitive, transitive] to struggle physically to move or manage something
- wrestle with something He wrestled with the controls as the plane plunged.
- wrestle something + adv./prep. She wrestled the keys out of the ignition.
- [intransitive] to struggle to deal with something that is difficult synonym battle, grapple (2)
- wrestle with something She had spent the whole weekend wrestling with the problem.
- We wrestled for hours with the problem of which job to do first.
- wrestle to do something She has been wrestling to raise the money all year.
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Word OriginOld English, frequentative of wrǣstan ‘wrest’.
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