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# tussle

«tussle» in Mova's school dictionary: **A rough fight or struggle between two people** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (tussles); verb (tussles, tussled, tussling)

### meaning for a pupil

A rough fight or struggle between two people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tussle/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a fight between a troll or giant and an opponent

### examples

- The two giants had a tussle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tussle/#x1)
- "We shall have a tussle for that!" shrieked the Troll. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tussle/#x2)
- The boys tussled over the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tussle/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tussle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tussle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.