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wrastling

wrastling is the present participle of wrastle.

wrastling is the alternative form of wrestling.

Meaning of wrestling

Noun

wrestling (countable and uncountable, plural wrestlings)

  1. A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
  2. (countable, dated) A wrestling match.
    • […] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry […]1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 4, page 42
  3. (countable) The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.
    • I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow[…]1863, Jean Ingelow, “Honors”, in Poems

Forms of wrastling

pluralwrastlings

Origin of wrastling

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about wrastling

What is wrastling the present participle of?
Wrastling is the present participle of wrastle.

Words near wrastling in the dictionary

  1. wrastle
  2. wrastled
  3. wrastler
  4. wrastlers
  5. wrastles
  6. wrastling
  7. wratch
  8. wratches
  9. wrate
  10. wrath
  11. Wrath Month

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