| wrestle | 1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. "To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well." (Shak) "Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum." (Wiseman) 2. Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend. "Come, wrestle with thy affections." (Shak) "We wrestle not against flesh and blood." (Eph. Vi. 12) "Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled." (M. Arnold) Origin: OE. Wrestlen, wrastlen, AS. Wrstlian, freq. Of wrstan to wrest; akin to OD. Wrastelen to wrestle. See Wrest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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