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Difference Between Wrestle and Grappling

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Wrestle

To try to throw or immobilize another person, especially by gripping with the hands.

Grappling

Grappling, in hand-to-hand combat, describes sports that consist of gripping or seizing the opponent. Grappling is used at close range to gain a physical advantage over an opponent, either by imposing a position or causing injury.

Wrestle

To engage in the sport of wrestling.

Grappling

See grapple.

Wrestle

To struggle to move or control something with the hands
Wrestled with the truck's steering wheel.
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Grappling

(Nautical) See grapnel.

Wrestle

To struggle in trying to manage, control, or deal with something
Wrestling with budget cuts.
Wrestle with one's conscience.

Grappling

(gerund of grapple) An act in which something is grappled or grappled with.

Wrestle

To try to throw or immoblize (someone); wrestle with
Wrestled the fugitive to the ground.

Grappling

A grappling hook or grappling iron.
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Wrestle

To take part in a wrestling match with (someone).

Grappling

A small anchor; a grapnel.

Wrestle

To take part in (a wrestling match).

Grappling

Present participle of grapple

Wrestle

To move or lift with great effort and force
Wrestled the piano up the stairs.

Grappling

A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel.

Wrestle

To taken (something) away from another by gripping and pulling
Wrestled the gun out of the robber's hands.

Grappling

A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear.

Wrestle

To throw (a calf or other animal) for branding.

Grappling

The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat;
They had a fierce wrestle
We watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully

Wrestle

The act or a bout of wrestling.

Grappling

Taking the bull by the horns

Wrestle

A struggle
A wrestle with a problem.

Grappling

The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down

Wrestle

A wrestling bout.

Wrestle

A struggle.

Wrestle

(intransitive) To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise defeat him, depending on the specific rules of the contest

Wrestle

(intransitive) To struggle or strive

Wrestle

(transitive) To take part in a wrestling match with someone

Wrestle

(transitive) To move or lift something with difficulty

Wrestle

(transitive) To throw a calf etc in order to brand it

Wrestle

(transitive) To fight.

Wrestle

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.
Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.

Wrestle

Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
Come, wrestle with thy affections.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood.
Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled.

Wrestle

To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.

Wrestle

A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.
Whom in a wrestle the giant catching aloft, with a terrible hug broke three of his ribs.

Wrestle

The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat;
They had a fierce wrestle
We watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully

Wrestle

Combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force;
He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority

Wrestle

Engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate;
I wrestled with this decision for years

Wrestle

To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling);
The prisoner writhed in discomfort
The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace

Wrestle

Engage in a wrestling match;
The children wrestled in the garden

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