What is another word for wrestle?
Synonyms for wrestle
ˈrɛs əlwres·tle
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Princeton's WordNet
wrestle, wrestling, grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggleverb
the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
"they had a fierce wrestle"; "we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully"
Synonyms:
grappling hook, wrestling, clamshell, rassling, hand-to-hand struggle, grappling, grapple, grappling iron, grappler, grapnelwrestleverb
combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force
"He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority"
wrestleverb
engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate
"I wrestled with this decision for years"
writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twistverb
to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
"The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"
Synonyms:
turn, sophisticate, squirm, pervert, sprain, rick, twist, bend, wrick, wrench, wind, distort, curve, deform, convolute, worm, twist around, twine, flex, wriggle, writhewrestleverb
engage in a wrestling match
"The children wrestled in the garden"
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "wrestle":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1007 | turn | |
#1899 | wind | |
#4858 | rick | |
#5714 | curve | |
#5741 | wrestling | |
#6506 | bend | |
#7835 | twist | |
#9114 | flex | |
#9158 | worm | |
#17309 | wrench | |
#31885 | wrestle | |
#32665 | distort | |
#34734 | pervert | |
#38502 | grapple | |
#38780 | grappling | |
#41035 | clamshell | |
#43915 | twine | |
#61179 | sprain | |
#65958 | squirm | |
#78074 | deform | |
#103521 | wriggle | |
#108867 | grappler | |
#112569 | sophisticate | |
#119181 | writhe | |
#233953 | convolute |
How to use wrestle in a sentence?
If this virus were a physical assailant, an unexpected and invisible mugger, which I can tell you from personal experience it is, then this is the moment when we are beginning to wrestle it to the floor.
The bottom line is we've got an arm wrestle going on here and the longer it goes on, the longer the customers have to stand by at the edges...waiting for some sort of resolution.
There wouldn't be such an outcry for help from the communities if there was so much change, last month, I had to wrestle a young man down because he tried to shoot someone in the head. There were four officers standing on the corner who walked in the opposite direction.
The biggest issue that the guys have had to wrestle with is how you cope with extremely high temperatures that come into the engine when you're doing hypersonic speeds; so more than five times the speed of sound, 4,000 miles-per-hour. The temperature coming in at the front of the engine is a thousand degrees centigrade. And you have to be able to cool that air very rapidly to be able to do anything useful with it.
Honestly, we didn't really wrestle with Bonnie Lower much at all, we had talked about Bonnie Lower, that if we had the opportunity to open, we would open.
Translations for wrestle
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- تصارعArabic
- zápasitCzech
- ringenGerman
- πάληGreek
- lucharSpanish
- paini, painiottelu, punnertaa, tapella, painia, kaataa, kamppailu, kamppaillaFinnish
- lutterFrench
- wrakseljeWestern Frisian
- לְהִתגוֹשֵׁשׁHebrew
- 格闘Japanese
- whātōtōMāori
- worstelenDutch
- побороться, бороться, упорная борьбаRussian
- rvatiSerbo-Croatian
- БоротисяUkrainian
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