Synonym Game

wrestling

[res-ling]

wres·tling

[res-ling]
noun
1.
a sport in which two opponents struggle hand to hand in order to pin or press each other's shoulders to the mat or ground, with the style, rules, and regulations differing widely in amateur and professional matches. Compare catch-as-catch-can (def. 3), Greco-Roman (def. 3).
2.
the act of a person who wrestles.

Origin:
before 1100; Middle English; Old English wrǣstlunge. See wrestle, -ing1

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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wres·tle

[res-uhl] verb, wres·tled, wres·tling, noun
verb (used without object)
1.
to engage in wrestling.
2.
to contend, as in a struggle for mastery; grapple: to wrestle with one's conscience.
verb (used with object)
3.
to contend with in wrestling.
4.
to force by or as if by wrestling.
5.
to throw (a calf or other animal) for branding.
noun
6.
an act of or a bout at wrestling.
7.
a struggle.

Origin:
before 1100; Middle English wrestlen, wrastlen (v.), Old English *wrǣstlian (compare Old English wrǣstlere wrestler), frequentative of wrǣstan to wrest; cognate with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German worstelen

wres·tler, noun
out·wres·tle, verb (used with object), out·wres·tled, out·wres·tling.
un·wres·tled, adjective
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wrestling (ˈrɛslɪŋ)
 
n
freestyle Graeco-Roman See sumo any of certain sports in which the contestants fight each other according to various rules governing holds and usually forbidding blows with the closed fist. The principal object is to overcome the opponent either by throwing or pinning him to the ground or by causing him to submit

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