Dictionary entry
Wrestle
Pronunciation: /ˈrɛs(ə)l/
Pronunciation
/ˈrɛs(ə)l/
Myanmar Meaning
နပမ်းပြိုင်ပွဲ။ ခက်ခဲသော ရုန်းကန်မှု။ နပမ်းသတ်ပွဲတွင် ပါဝင်သည်။ ရုန်းကန်လှုပ်ရှားသည်။ တိုက်ခိုက်သည်။ အခက်အခဲကို ဖြေရှင်းရာတွင် အစွမ်းကုန် ပြုလုပ်သည်။
Definition
wrestle /'resl/ v ~ (with sb) နပန္းလံုးသည္။ Can you wrestle? ❍ Armed guards wrestled with the intruders. ❍ He wrestled his opponent to the floor/ground. n (usu sing ) ၁။ နပန္းလံုးျခင္း။ ၂။ ~ (with sth) [ဥ] နပန္းလံုးျခင္း။ a wrestle with one's conscience. ❏ wrestler /'reslǝ(r)/ n နပန္းသမား။ ❏ wrestle with sth [ PHRV ] [ဥ] နပန္းလံုးသည္။ wrestle with a problem/ one's conscience ❍ The pilot was wrestling with the controls. ❏ wrestling /'reslÇŋ/ n [U] နပန္းပြဲ။ watch (the) wrestling on television.
Examples
- ‘We both started laughing and getting into this huge pillow fight when all of a sudden we started wrestling on the ground!’
- ‘Then we had a snowball fight
- wrestled around on the ground
- and carried on with play fights for a short while until we were all quite exhausted.’
- ‘Neither Kyal nor Cade took any notice as they rolled on the ground
- wrestling for control.’
- ‘However
- John Thornton suddenly rushes in to save the day
- throwing Hal down to the ground
- wrestling with him.’
- ‘Their children were the kids I wrestled with and fought with and played Star Wars with.’
- ‘When they play-fought
- wrestling on the ground or standing on their hindlegs and pushing against each other
- he felt a savage affection for them.’
- ‘They fall to the ground and begin to wrestle around.’
- ‘The pair of boys fell to the ground
- wrestling drunkenly
- trying to get the better of the other.’
- ‘The two of them were wrestling on the ground now
- and Mega Man managed to pin his brother's wrists to the ground.’
- ‘They fell forward onto the ground
- locked together as they wrestled with one another in order to separate themselves into two people.’
- ‘Opponents wrestle until one is thrown to the ground.’
- ‘For some sports such as wrestling
- no eye protection is available.’
- ‘Witnesses said that despite his age
- Bocus wrestled with the gunman
- who forced him to the ground and fired a shot through his mouth.’
- ‘All night the two wrestle
- but neither can defeat the other.’
- ‘When I caught up
- the pair of them were wrestling on the ground for what looked like
- believe it or not
- a cookie.’
- ‘Jumping
- running
- swimming
- wrestling
- and other sports activities are recreation for boys and young adults.’
- ‘Freya laughed
- and shook her head
- watching the 3 of them wrestle on the ground.’
- ‘The change
- in which both hero and beast are prone and wrestling on the ground
- gives a strikingly different appearance from the standing or kneeling schemes.’
- ‘Children with enlarged spleens should avoid contact sports (even wrestling with friends or siblings at home).’
- ‘The two battlers rolled about
- wrestling on the floor of the hallway.’