Meaning of Wrestle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fight or struggle between people during which they grapple or otherwise contend with each other in order to throw or force their opponent to the ground, chiefly as a sport or in unarmed combat.
   countable, uncountable
2. A situation in which people compete with each other; a contest, a struggle.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
3. The action of contending or struggling.
   also, figuratively, uncountable

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Examples

“[I]n a VVreſtle the Giant [Gogmagog] catching aloft, vvith a terrible hugg broke three of his Ribs: nevertheleſs Corineus enrag'd, heaving him up by main force, and on his Shoulders bearing him to the next high Rock, threvv him headlong all ſhatter'd into the Sea, and left his name on the Cliff, call'd ever ſince Langoëmagog, vvhich is to ſay, the Giants leap.”

“Beyond the tilt-yard spread the larger space, / For the strong wrestle and the breathless race; […]”

“Both parties in the wrestle professing earnest wishes of peace to us, what have we to do with it except answer earnestly, "Peace, yes certainly," and mind our affairs elsewhere. The British Nation has no concern with that indispensable sorrowful and shameful wrestle now going on everywhere in foreign parts.”

“The body politic, which, while it remained in repose, had presented a superficial appearance of health and vigour, was not under the necessity of straining every nerve in a wrestle for life or death, and was immediately found to be unequal to the exertion.”

“War in Italy, universal spasm of wrestle there, being now the expectation of foolish mankind.”

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