wrestle

Universal Words verb 1 ~ (with sb) to fight sb by holding them and trying to throw or force them to the ground, sometimes as a sport: [V] As a boy he had boxed and wrestled. * Armed guards wrestled with the intruder. * [VN] Shoppers wrestled the raider to the ground. 2 ~ (with sth) to struggle to deal with sth that is difficult: [V] She had spent the whole weekend wrestling with the problem. * He wrestled with the controls as the plane plunged. * [Vtoinf] She wrestled to look serious. [also VN]