/ ˈresl; NAmE / verb
1.
wrestle (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.
wrestle (with sth) to struggle to deal with sth that is difficult
SYN battle , grapple :
[ v ]
She had spent the whole weekend wrestling with the problem.
He wrestled with the controls as the plane plunged.
[ v to inf ]
She has been wrestling to raise the money all year.
[also vn ]
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WORD ORIGIN
Old English , frequentative of wrǣstan wrest .