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Word Meanings - WRESTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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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  • WRESTLE
    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
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  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • BROKEN
    1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
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  • OPPONENT
    1. One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe. Macaulay. 2. One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent,
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    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • WITHOUTFORTH
    Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
  • SHALLOON
    A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
  • SHALLOW-BRAINED
    Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
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    Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
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    Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
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    To grapple.
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    1. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. His censure will . . . accredit his praises. Cowper. These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton. 2. To send with letters credential, as an
  • ACCREDITATION
    The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.
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    To seize; to clutch; to grapple. Drayton.
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