Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - wrestle
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Wrestle
wrestle
(wrestles, wrestling, wrestled) 1. When you wrestle with a difficult problem, you try to deal with it. Delegates wrestled with the problems of violence and sanctions... VERB: V with n 2. If you wrestle with someone, you fight them by forcing them into painful positions or throwing them to the ground, rather than by hitting them. Some people wrestle as a sport. They taught me to wrestle... VERB: V 3. If you wrestle a person or thing somewhere, you move them there using a lot of force, for example by twisting a part of someone’s body into a painful position. We had to physically wrestle the child from the man’s arms... VERB: V n prep 4. see also wrestling
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I. verb (~d; wrestling) Etymology: Middle English wrastlen, ~n, from Old English wr?stlian, frequentative of wr?stan Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to contend by grappling with and striving to trip or throw an opponent down or off balance 2. to combat an opposing tendency or force wrestling with his conscience 3. to engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate 4. to engage in or as if in a violent or determined struggle wrestling with cumbersome luggage transitive verb 1. a. to engage in (a match, bout, or fall) in wrestling b. to ~ with ~ an alligator 2. to move, maneuver, or force with difficulty • ~r noun II. noun Date: 1593 the action or an instance of wrestling ; struggle; especially a wrestling bout ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a contest in which two opponents grapple and try to throw each other to the ground esp. as an athletic sport under a code of rules. 2 a hard struggle. --v. 1 intr. (often foll. by with) take part in a wrestle. 2 tr. fight (a person) in a wrestle (wrestled his opponent to the ground). 3 intr. a (foll. by with, against) struggle, contend. b (foll. by with) do one's utmost to deal with (a task, difficulty, etc.). 4 tr. move with efforts as if wrestling. Derivatives wrestler n. wrestling n. Etymology: OE (unrecorded) wr{aelig}stlian: cf. MLG wrostelen, OE wraxlian ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. борьба, схватка 2. спорт. борцовский поединок 3. упорная борьба (с трудностями и т. п.) a wrestle for life or death —- борьба не на жизнь, а на смерть 4. бороться he offered to wrestle me for $10 —- он предложил мне бороться с ним на пари в 10 долларов she wrestled with her attacker —- она боролась с напавшим на нее police wrestled him to the ground —- полицейские прижали его к земле 5. спорт. заниматься борьбой, бороться to wrestle in (from) a kneeling position —- бороться в партере to wrestle in (from) a standing position —- бороться в стойке 6. (with, редк. against) вести упорную борьбу (с чем-л.), бороться (против чего-л.) to wrestle with (against) tempation —- бороться с искушением who can wrestle against Sleep? —- кто может устоять перед Морфеем? he had to wrestle desperately for a living —- он должен был вести упорную борьбу за существование 7. биться над чем-л. to wrestle with a subject —- ломать голову над каким-л. вопросом to wrestle with a difficult examination paper —- биться над трудной экзаменационной работой 8. пытаться извиваться, корчиться 9. ам. диал. прижать к земле (теленка и т. п. для клеймения) 10. с трудом продвигаться the icebreaker wrestled through solid ice —- ледокол пробивался через сплошные льды Id: to wrestle with God —- горячо молиться ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) sport борьба; соревнование по борьбе 2) упорная борьба (с трудностями и т.п.) 2. v. бороться; to wrestle against/with temptation (adversity) - бороться с искушением (бедой); to wrestle with a problem - биться, ломать голову над задачей ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 to fight someone by holding onto them and pulling or pushing them (The kids were wrestling with each other in the yard.) wrestle sb to the ground (=make someone fall down by holding onto them and pushing them) 2 to have difficulty controlling or holding something that is very large, heavy, or difficult to use (Daisy was wrestling with one of the larger boxes.) 3 to try to deal with or find a solution to a difficult problem (I spent two hours wrestling with my maths homework.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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