英语词汇“wrestle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINwrestle

Origin:

Old English wræstlian, from wræstan; ➔ WREST

VERB TABLE

wrestle

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	wrestle
	he, she, it	wrestles
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	wrestled
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have wrestled
	he, she, it	has wrestled
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had wrestled
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will wrestle
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have wrestled

Continuous Form
Present	I	am wrestling
	he, she, it	is wrestling
	you, we, they	are wrestling
Past	I, he, she, it	was wrestling
	you, we, they	were wrestling
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been wrestling
	he, she, it	has been wrestling
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been wrestling
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be wrestling
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been wrestling

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

His jaw was broken while he tried to wrestle with a drunken bus driver.
The two boys wrestled for a while then gave up, tired.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Fireman John Peck grabbed the blade and wrestled it off the attacker as he lunged at colleagues.
She kindly taught me, after that, To wrestle with her on the mat.
Ted wrestled the top off a can of chicken meat and put it in a bowl with some leftover macaroni and cheese.

Longman Language Activatorwhen people fight each other► fight

if people fight , or if one person fights another, they hit or kick each other in order to hurt each other: · Two men were fighting in the street outside.· He said he'd fight anyone who tried to stop him entering.fight with: · Billy had been fighting with some kids from another school.fight over/about: · Two men in the bar began fighting over a game of cards.· As kids, we fought about everything, but now we're pretty good friends.

► have a fight

to fight with another person: · The two girls had a fist fight in the school cafeteria.have a fight with: · He ran away from school after he had a fight with a bigger boy.

► struggle

to fight someone who is attacking you or holding you, especially so that you can escape from them: · She tried to struggle but he put his hand over her mouth.struggle to do something: · Vince struggled to free himself from the policeman's grip.struggle with: · It seems that he struggled with the robber and got quite seriously hurt.struggle against: · The victim had obviously struggled furiously against her attacker.

► wrestle

to fight someone by holding, pulling, or pushing them rather than hitting them: · The two boys wrestled for a while then gave up, tired.wrestle with: · His jaw was broken while he tried to wrestle with a drunken bus driver.

► come to blows

if two people come to blows , they start fighting after an argument or when both people are very angry: · Police say they don't know what the two were arguing about, only that it came to blows.

► clash

if two groups of people, especially people with opposing opinions or aims, clash , they fight for a short time: · Animal rights activists and fox-hunters clashed at the annual Boxing Day hunt.· Police clashed with demonstrators for the second time in a week.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► wrestled ... to the ground

Police officers wrestled him to the ground.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► wrestle/struggle with your conscience

(=struggle to decide whether it is right or wrong do something)· She wrestled with her conscience for weeks before deciding not to leave him.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► still

· Others are still wrestling with the decision.· We dropped the mainsail in time, but Joe and Rex were still wrestling down the foresail when the squall line hit.· Federal authorities are still wrestling with the question of whether the donation was legal.· Meanwhile their parents still wrestled with their own past.

NOUN► ground

· From the corner of her eye she saw the security guards wrestle him to the ground.· And what if some one actually grabbed hold of my ankle and wrestled me to the ground?· The pack leader grabbed the first policeman from behind and wrestled him to the ground, knocking his revolver from his grip.· He and Kyle loved to rough-house together; rolling and wrestling on the ground.

► issue

· Federal officials also are wrestling with the issue.· There Polly found other women wrestling with similar issues in their jobs.· But while Congress has wrestled with that issue, there has been only piecemeal deregulation.

► problem

· In the meantime, an owner who wishes to move and sell his property has to wrestle with the problem of blight.· Some people wrestle with their problems until the very last minutes of their waking hours.· Lewes drove them hard, but when not training he was wrestling with a different problem.· Performance indicators are becoming more sophisticated as managers wrestle with the problems of choosing and monitoring appropriate measures of quality and effectiveness.· The nation still has not seriously wrestled with the problems of the homeless.· The Labour Party wrestled with the problem by linking demands for disarmament with plans for legislation guaranteeing the Right to Work.· Their Technical and Mathematical concepts begin as they wrestle with the problem of size and shape at the woodwork and glueing tables.