| tussle | | |
| n. (act) | 1. dogfight, hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle | disorderly fighting. |
| ~ fighting, combat, fight, scrap | the act of fighting; any contest or struggle.; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" |
| v. (contact) | 2. scuffle, tussle | fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters.; "the drunken men started to scuffle" |
| ~ fight, struggle, contend | be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight.; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country" |
| v. (contact) | 3. muss, tussle | make messy or untidy.; "the child mussed up my hair" |
| ~ disarrange | destroy the arrangement or order of.; "My son disarranged the papers on my desk" |
| wrestle | | |
| n. (act) | 1. grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling | the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat.; "they had a fierce wrestle"; "we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully" |
| ~ struggle | strenuous effort.; "the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her" |
| v. (competition) | 2. wrestle | combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force.; "He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority" |
| ~ battle, combat | battle or contend against in or as if in a battle.; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget" |
| v. (communication) | 3. wrestle | engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate.; "I wrestled with this decision for years" |
| ~ deliberate, moot, debate, consider, turn over | think about carefully; weigh.; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" |
| v. (motion) | 4. squirm, twist, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe | 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" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ wrench | make a sudden twisting motion. |
| v. (contact) | 5. wrestle | engage in a wrestling match.; "The children wrestled in the garden" |
| ~ fight, struggle, contend | be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight.; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country" |
| ~ mud-wrestle, mudwrestle | wrestle in mud.; "some people enjoy watching people who mudwrestle" |
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