wrestle

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To try to throw or immobilize another person, especially by gripping with the hands.
• intransitive verb To engage in the sport of wrestling.
• intransitive verb To struggle to move or control something with the hands.
• intransitive verb To struggle in trying to manage, control, or deal with something.
• intransitive verb To try to throw or immoblize (someone); wrestle with.
• intransitive verb To take part in a wrestling match with (someone).
• intransitive verb To take part in (a wrestling match).
• intransitive verb To move or lift with great effort and force.
• intransitive verb To taken (something) away from another by gripping and pulling.
• intransitive verb To throw (a calf or other animal) for branding.
• noun The act or a bout of wrestling.
• noun A struggle.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A bout at wrestling; a wrestling-match.
• l. To twist or wind about; especially, to writhe; wriggle; squirm; struggle, as with the limbs.
• To struggle in a hand-to-hand contest; strive, as for some advantage or for mastery, with bodily strength and adroitness; specifically, to struggle, as two persons striving to throw each other to the ground, especially in a contest governed by certain fixed rules.
• To contend in any way, as in a struggle for mastery; maintain opposition or resistance, especially against a moral foe or force; strive.
• To deal, as with a troublesome duty; apply one's self vigorously; grapple: as, to wrestle with a knotty problem; to wrestle with a distasteful task.
• Hence, to devote one's self earnestly to prayer; pray.
• To contend with in wrestling: as, I will wrestle you for so much.
• On a cattle-range, to throw for the purpose of branding, as an animal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent.
• intransitive verb Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
• transitive verb To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
• noun A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A wrestling bout.
• noun A struggle.
• verb 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
• verb intransitive To struggle or strive
• verb transitive To take part in a wrestling match with someone
• verb transitive To move or lift something with difficulty
• verb transitive To throw a calf etc in order to brand it
• verb transitive To fight

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
• verb engage in a wrestling match
• verb engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate
• verb to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
• verb combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force