verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
professional wrestling
wrestle/struggle with your conscience (= struggle to decide whether it is right or wrong do something )
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She wrestled with her conscience for weeks before deciding not to leave him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
still
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Others are still wrestling with the decision.
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We dropped the mainsail in time, but Joe and Rex were still wrestling down the foresail when the squall line hit.
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Federal authorities are still wrestling with the question of whether the donation was legal.
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Meanwhile their parents still wrestled with their own past.
■ NOUN
ground
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From the corner of her eye she saw the security guards wrestle him to the ground .
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And what if some one actually grabbed hold of my ankle and wrestled me to the ground ?
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The pack leader grabbed the first policeman from behind and wrestled him to the ground , knocking his revolver from his grip.
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He and Kyle loved to rough-house together; rolling and wrestling on the ground .
issue
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Federal officials also are wrestling with the issue .
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There Polly found other women wrestling with similar issues in their jobs.
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But while Congress has wrestled with that issue , there has been only piecemeal deregulation.
problem
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In the meantime, an owner who wishes to move and sell his property has to wrestle with the problem of blight.
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Some people wrestle with their problems until the very last minutes of their waking hours.
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Lewes drove them hard, but when not training he was wrestling with a different problem .
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Performance indicators are becoming more sophisticated as managers wrestle with the problems of choosing and monitoring appropriate measures of quality and effectiveness.
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The nation still has not seriously wrestled with the problems of the homeless.
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The Labour Party wrestled with the problem by linking demands for disarmament with plans for legislation guaranteeing the Right to Work.
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Their Technical and Mathematical concepts begin as they wrestle with the problem of size and shape at the woodwork and glueing tables.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His jaw was broken while he tried to wrestle with a drunken bus driver.
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The two boys wrestled for a while then gave up, tired.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fireman John Peck grabbed the blade and wrestled it off the attacker as he lunged at colleagues.
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She kindly taught me, after that, To wrestle with her on the mat.
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Ted wrestled the top off a can of chicken meat and put it in a bowl with some leftover macaroni and cheese.