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Wrestle: Definition and part of speech

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Wrestle

  1. n. A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.
  2. v. t. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
  3. v. t. Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
  4. v. t. To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wretch: Definition and part of speech

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Wretch

  1. v. t. One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.
  2. v. t. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wrest: Definition and part of speech

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Wrest

  1. n. A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
  2. v. t. To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.
  3. v. t. To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
  4. v. t. To tune with a wrest, or key.
  5. n. The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
  6. n. Active or moving power.
  7. n. A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.