WRESTLE


Meaning of WRESTLE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ res(ə)l ]

( wrestles, wrestling, wrestled)

1.

When you wrestle with a difficult problem, you try to deal with it.

Delegates wrestled with the problems of violence and sanctions...

VERB : V with n

2.

If you wrestle with someone, you fight them by forcing them into painful positions or throwing them to the ground, rather than by hitting them. Some people wrestle as a sport.

They taught me to wrestle...

VERB : V

3.

If you wrestle a person or thing somewhere, you move them there using a lot of force, for example by twisting a part of someone’s body into a painful position.

We had to physically wrestle the child from the man’s arms...

VERB : V n prep

4.

see also wrestling

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