wrestle

Pronunciation

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Verb

Plain form wrestle

Third-person singular wrestles

Past tense wrestled

Past participle wrestled

Present participle wrestling

1. (transitive & intransitive) If two people wrestle, they fight by holding, pushing, and pulling each other.

   The two men who wrestled in the TV show were very young.

Noun

Singular wrestle

Plural wrestles

1. (countable) A wrestle is a fight with pushing and pulling, often a play fight.

   The wrestle between the two men on the street was hard.

Related words

• wrester