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Definition of tussle in English: tusslenoun ˈtʌs(ə)lˈtəsəl A vigorous struggle or scuffle, typically in order to obtain or achieve something. there was a tussle for the ball Example sentencesExamples - Already, legal tussles have overshadowed the prospects of a better future for this prestigious venture taken up by the Society.
- They had won the seemingly impossible battle without even a tussle.
- The rest of the programme gets underway this week with some interesting tussles likely judging by the early pre-season form of some of the players in various tournaments and competitions.
- Out of all the fights, all the scuffles and tussles, this was the only one that mattered.
- In a sign of things to come, there were a few clashes at half time, when the occasional tussle flamed up in the tunnel to the dressing rooms.
- The Italian charging process is not the same as in Britain and it is unclear whether the move would lead to further legal tussles and delays to British attempts to extradite him.
- Sunday's match was a thriller from the start of play as opposing teams engaged in a valiant tussle for ball possession.
- The game progressed with players pushing vigorously to outdo each other in a tussle for ball possession.
- A man who tried to stop a thief from making off with a stolen digital projector sustained cuts and bruises to his head when he was knocked down in a tussle.
- Ready for launch over two months ago, the opening was put off due to the ongoing tussle in the local film industry.
- He believed the linesman misinterpreted what was an innocent entanglement after a tussle for the ball.
- His work is worth reflecting on, given the current political significance of the Murray River - thanks to on-going tussles over state rights, salinity and environmental degradation.
- Real connoisseurs of Cold War sporting tussles treasure the memory of the USSR beating the USA in the 1972 basketball final.
- Bad management, business naivete, and outright trickery resulted in years of legal tussles and lost revenue.
- Almost anonymous in the tussle between the two Australians, was the battle for bronze.
- As the match progressed the tussle for a goal advantage continued but Pioneers were content with a well deserved draw.
- The fraught standoff in the Ukraine is less the result of an internal dispute, than of a geopolitical tussle between East and West.
- It would be fair to say we had a good few tussles.
- From early on, it was apparent that it was going to be a game of tussles and the side which benefited most from the dead ball would finish victorious.
- There ensued one of those friendly tussles, not quite fights, that kids find such fun.
Synonyms scuffle, fight, struggle, skirmish, brawl, scrimmage, scramble, scrum, fisticuffs, wrestling match, rough and tumble, free-for-all, fracas, fray, rumpus, melee, disturbance Irish, North American, & Australian donnybrook Law, dated affray informal scrap, dust-up, punch-up, set-to, shindy, shindig, run-in, spat, ruck, ruckus British informal ding-dong, bust-up, bit of argy-bargy British informal, Football afters Scottish informal rammy, swedge North American informal roughhouse Australian/New Zealand informal stoush archaic broil, miff argument, quarrel, squabble, contretemps, disagreement, contention, clash, war of words British informal row
verb ˈtʌs(ə)lˈtəsəl [no object]Engage in a vigorous struggle or scuffle. the demonstrators tussled with police Example sentencesExamples - They tussled and screamed right in the middle of the cafeteria, everyone was completely silent.
- Boys tussled in the branches above her, shaking leaves down upon her.
- In heat two, Poland and the Czech Republic tussled for the top spot.
- They tussled on the floor, an oddly muted fight as they were both trying to shield the book from damage.
- Recent fears that something between the gangs was brewing came to light about a month ago when associates of the opposing gangs tussled in central Rotorua.
- The jockeying of the past few months, as they tussled over the top job and sized each other across the Cabinet table, was only the last act of rift that had opened up over many years.
- For most of the last century musicians, conductors and scholars have tussled over the best way to deal with the sketches Mahler left behind when he died in 1910.
- As Canada continued to lead and Australia and Germany tussled, a new challenge was developing over in lane 5.
- The Czech Republic slipped into second while Australia, Ireland and Austria tussled for third.
- Macedonian and ethnic Albanian politicians tussled over future policing at talks yesterday as the government and rebels accused each other of violating a truce.
- A Tullow woman tussled violently with her attackers as they attempted to steal her handbag before they dragged her along the road until she smacked her head off a lamp-post.
- Later, show host Miller said he had feared there would be injuries as the two men tussled.
- Blood dripped from somewhere - neither of them knew where - onto the floor and drops of it flew like sparks from a fire as the two tussled fiercely.
- They tussled in the dirt for a while, Pyre reckoned she was winning.
- But despite his injuries, he tussled with the man for several minutes before finally letting him out of his shop when he threatened to kill him.
- With both chip makers already tussling for those all-important hard-to-see-on-TV car-component sponsorship spaces, they are now attempting to outdo each other in the car design arena.
- The only thing that surprised me bearing in mind the previous night's tales was that I couldn't hear the wildlife crashing around in the trees as they tussled for a vantage point from which to ambush me.
- Behind them Great Britain, Ukraine and the Netherlands tussled for the final two spots.
- He got a black eye tussling under the boards with Shaquille O'Neal in a rousing win against the Lakers, snapping Los Angeles' 19-game winning streak.
- With muffled thuds and a yelp, Ace and the thief tussled on the floor.
Synonyms scuffle, fight, struggle, exchange blows, come to blows, brawl, grapple, wrestle, clash, scrimmage informal scrap, have a dust-up, have a punch-up, have a set-to North American informal rough-house
Origin Late Middle English (as a verb, originally Scots and northern English): perhaps a diminutive of dialect touse 'handle roughly' (see tousle). hassle from [late 19th century]: This was originally a dialect word in the sense ‘hack or saw at’. The origin is unknown but it may be a blend of haggle (LME from an Old Norse word for ‘hack, mangle’) and tussle (LME, probably the same word as tousle, of Germanic origin).
Rhymes bustle, muscle, mussel, Russell, rustle Definition of tussle in US English: tusslenounˈtəsəlˈtəsəl A vigorous struggle or scuffle, typically in order to obtain or achieve something. there was a tussle for the ball Example sentencesExamples - Bad management, business naivete, and outright trickery resulted in years of legal tussles and lost revenue.
- The Italian charging process is not the same as in Britain and it is unclear whether the move would lead to further legal tussles and delays to British attempts to extradite him.
- Real connoisseurs of Cold War sporting tussles treasure the memory of the USSR beating the USA in the 1972 basketball final.
- The game progressed with players pushing vigorously to outdo each other in a tussle for ball possession.
- They had won the seemingly impossible battle without even a tussle.
- As the match progressed the tussle for a goal advantage continued but Pioneers were content with a well deserved draw.
- The fraught standoff in the Ukraine is less the result of an internal dispute, than of a geopolitical tussle between East and West.
- Ready for launch over two months ago, the opening was put off due to the ongoing tussle in the local film industry.
- He believed the linesman misinterpreted what was an innocent entanglement after a tussle for the ball.
- The rest of the programme gets underway this week with some interesting tussles likely judging by the early pre-season form of some of the players in various tournaments and competitions.
- In a sign of things to come, there were a few clashes at half time, when the occasional tussle flamed up in the tunnel to the dressing rooms.
- His work is worth reflecting on, given the current political significance of the Murray River - thanks to on-going tussles over state rights, salinity and environmental degradation.
- Sunday's match was a thriller from the start of play as opposing teams engaged in a valiant tussle for ball possession.
- Almost anonymous in the tussle between the two Australians, was the battle for bronze.
- It would be fair to say we had a good few tussles.
- Out of all the fights, all the scuffles and tussles, this was the only one that mattered.
- A man who tried to stop a thief from making off with a stolen digital projector sustained cuts and bruises to his head when he was knocked down in a tussle.
- Already, legal tussles have overshadowed the prospects of a better future for this prestigious venture taken up by the Society.
- There ensued one of those friendly tussles, not quite fights, that kids find such fun.
- From early on, it was apparent that it was going to be a game of tussles and the side which benefited most from the dead ball would finish victorious.
Synonyms scuffle, fight, struggle, skirmish, brawl, scrimmage, scramble, scrum, fisticuffs, wrestling match, rough and tumble, free-for-all, fracas, fray, rumpus, melee, disturbance argument, quarrel, squabble, contretemps, disagreement, contention, clash, war of words
verbˈtəsəlˈtəsəl [no object]Engage in a vigorous struggle or scuffle. the demonstrators tussled with police Example sentencesExamples - The Czech Republic slipped into second while Australia, Ireland and Austria tussled for third.
- They tussled in the dirt for a while, Pyre reckoned she was winning.
- In heat two, Poland and the Czech Republic tussled for the top spot.
- For most of the last century musicians, conductors and scholars have tussled over the best way to deal with the sketches Mahler left behind when he died in 1910.
- With both chip makers already tussling for those all-important hard-to-see-on-TV car-component sponsorship spaces, they are now attempting to outdo each other in the car design arena.
- Boys tussled in the branches above her, shaking leaves down upon her.
- With muffled thuds and a yelp, Ace and the thief tussled on the floor.
- Later, show host Miller said he had feared there would be injuries as the two men tussled.
- A Tullow woman tussled violently with her attackers as they attempted to steal her handbag before they dragged her along the road until she smacked her head off a lamp-post.
- They tussled on the floor, an oddly muted fight as they were both trying to shield the book from damage.
- Macedonian and ethnic Albanian politicians tussled over future policing at talks yesterday as the government and rebels accused each other of violating a truce.
- They tussled and screamed right in the middle of the cafeteria, everyone was completely silent.
- But despite his injuries, he tussled with the man for several minutes before finally letting him out of his shop when he threatened to kill him.
- Recent fears that something between the gangs was brewing came to light about a month ago when associates of the opposing gangs tussled in central Rotorua.
- Blood dripped from somewhere - neither of them knew where - onto the floor and drops of it flew like sparks from a fire as the two tussled fiercely.
- As Canada continued to lead and Australia and Germany tussled, a new challenge was developing over in lane 5.
- Behind them Great Britain, Ukraine and the Netherlands tussled for the final two spots.
- The jockeying of the past few months, as they tussled over the top job and sized each other across the Cabinet table, was only the last act of rift that had opened up over many years.
- He got a black eye tussling under the boards with Shaquille O'Neal in a rousing win against the Lakers, snapping Los Angeles' 19-game winning streak.
- The only thing that surprised me bearing in mind the previous night's tales was that I couldn't hear the wildlife crashing around in the trees as they tussled for a vantage point from which to ambush me.
Synonyms scuffle, fight, struggle, exchange blows, come to blows, brawl, grapple, wrestle, clash, scrimmage
Origin Late Middle English (as a verb, originally Scots and northern English): perhaps a diminutive of dialect touse ‘handle roughly’ (see tousle). |