Synonyms of the word

wrestle

• n. A wrestling bout.
• n. A struggle.
• v. (intransitive) To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise…
• v. (intransitive) To struggle or strive.
• v. (transitive) To take part in a wrestling match with someone.
• v. (transitive) To move or lift something with difficulty.
• v. (transitive) To throw a calf etc in order to brand it.
• v. (transitive) To fight.

battle

• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England, agriculture) Improving; nutritious; fattening.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) Fertile; fruitful.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To nourish; feed.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To render (for example soil) fertile…
• n. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an…
• n. A struggle; a contest.
• n. (now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
• n. (obsolete) The main body, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; battalia.
• v. (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight.
• v. (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.

combat

• n. A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
• v. (transitive) To fight with; to struggle for victory against.

consider

• v. (transitive) To think about seriously.
• v. (transitive) To think of doing.
• v. (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.
• v. (transitive) To look at attentively.
• v. (transitive) To take up as an example.
• v. (transitive, parliamentary procedure) To debate or dispose of a motion.
• v. To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

contend

• v. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
• v. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
• v. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

debate

• n. (obsolete) Strife, discord.
• n. An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people,…
• n. An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
• n. (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
• n. (Frequently in French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To fight.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
• v. (transitive) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide.

deliberate

• adj. Done on purpose; intentional.
• adj. Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the…
• adj. Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash.
• adj. Not hasty or sudden; slow.
• v. To consider carefully.

fight

• v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight.
• n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

grapple

• v. (transitive) To seize something and hold it firmly.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) Normally used with with: to ponder and intensely evaluate a problem.
• v. (transitive) To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join indissolubly.
• v. (intransitive) To use a grapple.
• v. (intransitive) To wrestle or tussle.
• n. A tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something.
• n. A close hand-to-hand struggle.
• n. (uncountable) The act of grappling.

grappling

• n. (gerund of grapple) An act in which something is grappled or grappled with.
• v. present participle of grapple.

moot

• adj. (current in Britain, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable,…
• adj. (Canada, US, chiefly law) Being an exercise of thought; academic.
• adj. (Canada, US) Having no practical impact or relevance.
• n. A moot court.
• n. A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate…
• n. (Scouting) A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
• n. (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
• n. (historical) An assembly (usually for decision making in a locality).
• n. (shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
• v. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
• v. To discuss or debate.
• v. (US) To make or declare irrelevant.
• v. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
• v. (regional, obsolete) To talk or speak.
• v. (Scotland, Northern England) To say, utter, also insinuate.
• n. (Scotland, Northern England) A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
• n. (Scotland, Northern England, rural) Talk.
• n. (Australia) Vagina.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

squirm

• v. To twist one’s body with snakelike motions.
• v. To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.
• v. To evade (a question, an interviewer etc).
• v. (figuratively) To move in a slow, irregular motion.
• n. A twisting, snakelike movement of the body.

struggle

• n. Strife, contention, great effort.
• v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
• v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

worm

• n. A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
• n. More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them,…
• n. (archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent.
• n. (fantasy, science fiction) Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or…
• n. A contemptible or devious being.
• n. (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
• n. (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
• n. Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
• n. (obsolete) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
• n. (figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
• n. (mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
• v. (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
• v. (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
• v. To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by out.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant…
• v. (transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
• v. (transitive) To deworm (an animal).
• v. (transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking…
• v. (transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.

wrestling

• v. present participle of wrestle.
• n. A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of…
• n. A professional tumbling act that emulates the sport of wrestling. Also called "professional wrestling"…
• n. (countable) The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.

wriggle

• v. (intransitive) To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
• v. (transitive) To cause to or make something wriggle.
• n. A wriggling movement.

writhe

• v. (transitive) To twist, to wring (something).
• v. (transitive) To contort (a part of the body).
• v. (intransitive) To twist or contort the body; to be distorted.
• n. (knot theory) The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot.