Wrestle /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Wrestled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrestling

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.

   Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.

2. Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.

   Come, wrestle with thy affections.

   We wrestle not against flesh and blood.

   Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled.

1. To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.

1. 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.