Wrestle: Definition and part of speech

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.

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