wrestle

«wrestle» in Mova's school dictionary: To fight by holding and pushing someone, trying to get… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (wrestle, wrestles, wrestled, wrestling)

meaning for a pupil

1) To fight by holding and pushing someone, trying to get them to the ground, as a sport or in play. tree →

2) To struggle hard with a problem or a difficult object: wrestle with homework. tree →

sense in the lessons

In sport and PE: wrestling has rules and referees. In everyday life: children wrestle in play; you wrestle with a heavy suitcase. In stories and school: «She wrestled with the maths problem» means she worked hard to solve it.

examples

• The two brothers wrestled on the grass. tree →
• He wrestled with the tricky fraction problem for ages. tree →
• Mum wrestled the huge suitcase onto the train. tree →
• Wrestling is an old Olympic sport. tree →
• The puppy wrestled with the rope toy. tree →
• I wrestled with the choice between the two books. tree →

note

Silent t and w: say «RESS-ul». Regular verb: wrestled, wrestling (drop the e). Noun: wrestling (the sport), wrestler (the person). Safety: play-fighting should stop when someone says stop.

In the corpora

• Stoats and weasels wrestled and rolled about until most of them rolled into the river!
• Jacob wrestled all night with a mysterious man and was renamed Israel, a name often explained as "he struggles with God".
• (32-25) And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wrestle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.