wrestle

verb

ˈre-səl How to pronounce wrestle (audio)
Definition of wrestlenext
as in to fight
to seize and attempt to unbalance one another for the purpose of achieving physical mastery the sisters wrestled on the floor over the last cookie

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Recent Examples of wrestle Her parents, Baptist deacons who ultimately left the church over its refusal to ordain women, raised their children to wrestle with such questions. — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 30 June 2026 Tempers flared late in the fourth quarter when Kings center Dylan Cardwell and Nets guard Egor Demin wrestled for a loose ball. — Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 5 July 2026 Norway Cruise Ports Feel The Pressure That matters at a time when Norway’s cruise industry is wrestling with its own success. — David Nikel, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 At a launch event here, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that until now, humans have wrestled with the complexity of biology only with their minds. — Matthew Herper, STAT, 30 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for wrestle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrestle
  1. fight
  2. grapple
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  • Two firefighters died from injures sustained while fighting the blaze.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • The action is set in the 1750s with Washington as a young man eager to fight, initially as a British officer in a period of complex loyalties.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 3 July 2026
Definition of fight
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  • Reading scores among high school seniors are at their lowest in decades, according to federal testing data, while schools across the country are grappling with how to respond to waning attention spans and artificial intelligence.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Chatrie and the Supreme Court For decades, the court has grappled with law enforcement’s use of technologies to track the location of people or things.
    — Anne Toomey McKenna, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
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“Wrestle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrestle. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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