wrestle
wrestle is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
- transitive verb. Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
- transitive verb. To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
- noun. A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.
- noun. the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
"they had a fierce wrestle"
"we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully"
- verb. engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate
"I wrestled with this decision for years"
- verb. combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force
"He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority"
- verb. engage in a wrestling match
"The children wrestled in the garden"
- verb. to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
"The prisoner writhed in discomfort"
"The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"
Synonyms
grapple, grappling, wrestling, squirm, twist, worm, wriggle, writhe
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wrestle:
Common word forms
wrestled, wrestler, wrestles, wrestling
Words from these letters
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