Wrestle

Definition of Wrestle

Wres´tle

v. i.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Wrestled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrestling .]
	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.
v. t.	1.	To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
n.	1.	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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