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# wrestle

«wrestle» in Mova's school dictionary: **To fight by holding and pushing someone, trying to get…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (wrestle, wrestles, wrestled, wrestling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To fight by holding and pushing someone, trying to get them to the ground, as a sport or in play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrestle/#m1)

2) To struggle hard with a problem or a difficult object: wrestle with homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrestle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In sport and PE: wrestling has rules and referees. In everyday life: children wrestle in play; you wrestle with a heavy suitcase. In stories and school: «She wrestled with the maths problem» means she worked hard to solve it.

### examples

- The two brothers wrestled on the grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrestle/#x1)
- He wrestled with the tricky fraction problem for ages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrestle/#x2)
- Mum wrestled the huge suitcase onto the train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrestle/#x3)
- Wrestling is an old Olympic sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrestle/#x4)
- The puppy wrestled with the rope toy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrestle/#x5)
- I wrestled with the choice between the two books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wrestle/#x6)

### note

Silent t and w: say «RESS-ul». Regular verb: wrestled, wrestling (drop the e). Noun: wrestling (the sport), wrestler (the person). Safety: play-fighting should stop when someone says stop.

### In the corpora

- [Stoats and weasels wrestled and rolled about until most of them rolled into the river!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall/10/)
- [Jacob wrestled all night with a mysterious man and was renamed Israel, a name often explained as "he struggles with God".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/16/)
- [(32-25) And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1024/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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