Word Direct Answers

What does "wrestle" mean?

Wrestle: Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend. Come, wrestle with thy affections. Shak. We wrestle not against flesh and blood. Eph. vi.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled. M. Arnold.
  2. 3.To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
  3. 4.A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle. Whom in a wrestle the giant catching aloft, with a terrible hug broke three of his ribs. Milton.

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