1. Engage in physical combat involving grappling and attempting to throw or pin down an opponent
   "The children wrestled in the garden";
   - rassle [N. Amer, informal]
    
2. Combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force
   "He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority"
    
3. Move in a twisting or contorted motion (esp. when struggling)
   "The prisoner wrestled in discomfort";
   - writhe, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist
    
4. Engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate
   "I wrestled with this decision for years"
    
5. Forcefully take something from someone's grasp
   "He had to wrestle the gun away from the attacker"

1. The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
   "they had a fierce wrestle";
   - wrestling, grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle

Derived forms: wrestled, wrestles, wrestling

Type of: battle, combat, consider, debate, deliberate, fight, moot, move, struggle, turn over

Encyclopedia: Wrestle