Wrestling
['reslɪŋ] or ['rɛslɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down.
Editor: Priscilla--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrestle
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Struggle, contention.
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Examples
- Running, wrestling, cudgel-playing, throwing the javelin, drawing the bow, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The real activity was this ghastly wrestling for death in his own soul. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As he was fast making jam of his fruit by wrestling with the door while the paper-bags were under his arms, I begged him to allow me to hold them. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- What might have been, for anything I knew, a silence of days, weeks, months, years, was broken by a violent wrestling of men all over the room. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Only by wrestling with the conditions of the problem at first hand, seeking and finding his own way out, does he think. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The back door was open, and as he came to the foot of the stairs he saw two men wrestling together outside. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The wrestling had some deep meaning to them--an unfinished meaning. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My refusals were forgotten--my fears overcome--my wrestlings paralysed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Edited by Dwight