to wrestle (with)

  • 1wrestle with — ˈwrestle with [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they wrestle with he/she/it wrestles with present participle wrestling with past tense wrestled with …

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  • 2wrestle with something — wrestle with (something) to work hard to do something difficult. The new governor will be wrestling with the state s disastrous financial condition. These are the big issues that society will have to wrestle with. More than 200 firefighters… …

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  • 3wrestle with — (something) to work hard to do something difficult. The new governor will be wrestling with the state s disastrous financial condition. These are the big issues that society will have to wrestle with. More than 200 firefighters wrestled with the… …

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  • 4wrestle with — index confront (oppose), fight (battle) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 5wrestle with — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms wrestle with : present tense I/you/we/they wrestle with he/she/it wrestles with present participle wrestling with past tense wrestled with past participle wrestled with wrestle with something to try to deal… …

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  • 6wrestle with — phr verb Wrestle with is used with these nouns as the object: ↑conscience …

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  • 7wrestle with a pig — verb To engage in a struggle with an opponent that benefits from the struggle even without winning it. And when you begin refuting one anothers reasons, fussing back and forth, you generally do what a nationally known industrial relations… …

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  • 8wrestle with a problem — deal with a troubling matter …

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  • 9ˈwrestle with sth — phrasal verb to try to deal with a difficult problem …

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  • 10wrestle — [res′əl; ] often [ ras′əl] vi. wrestled, wrestling [ME wrestlen, wrastlen < OE wræstlian, freq. of wræstan, to twist: see WREST] 1. to struggle hand to hand with an opponent in an attempt to throw or force him or her to the ground without… …

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