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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wrestle \Wres"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wrestled}; p. pr & vb
n. {Wrestling}.] [OE. wrestlen, wrastlen, AS wr?stlian,
freq. of wr?stan to wrest; akin to OD wrastelen to wrestle.
See {Wrest}, v. t.]
1. To contend, by grappling with and striving to trip or
throw down an opponent; as they wrestled skillfully.
To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that
escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him
well --Shak.
Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of
the clavicle from the sternum. --Wiseman.
2. Hence to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
Come wrestle with thy affections. --Shak.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood. --Eph. vi
12.
Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled.
--M. Arnold.
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