Dictionary Entry
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.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
- 2transitive verb
Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
- 3transitive verb
To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
- 4noun
A struggle between two persons to See which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.
- 5noun
the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
"they had a fierce wrestle"
"we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully"
- 6verb
engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate
"I wrestled with this decision for years"
- 7verb
combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force
"He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority"
- 8verb
engage in a wrestling match
"The children wrestled in the garden"
- 9verb
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"
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