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]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for wrestle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is wrestle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, wrestle is tagged as verb.
Does wrestle appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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