Dictionary entry

Wrestler

Pronunciation: /ˈrɛslə/

Pronunciation

/ˈrɛslə/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) နပန်းသမား

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

  1. ‘We both started laughing and getting into this huge pillow fight when all of a sudden we started wrestling on the ground!’
  2. ‘Then we had a snowball fight
  3. wrestled around on the ground
  4. and carried on with play fights for a short while until we were all quite exhausted.’
  5. ‘Neither Kyal nor Cade took any notice as they rolled on the ground
  6. wrestling for control.’
  7. ‘However
  8. John Thornton suddenly rushes in to save the day
  9. throwing Hal down to the ground
  10. wrestling with him.’
  11. ‘Their children were the kids I wrestled with and fought with and played Star Wars with.’
  12. ‘When they play-fought
  13. wrestling on the ground or standing on their hindlegs and pushing against each other
  14. he felt a savage affection for them.’
  15. ‘They fall to the ground and begin to wrestle around.’
  16. ‘The pair of boys fell to the ground
  17. wrestling drunkenly
  18. trying to get the better of the other.’
  19. ‘The two of them were wrestling on the ground now
  20. and Mega Man managed to pin his brother's wrists to the ground.’
  21. ‘They fell forward onto the ground
  22. locked together as they wrestled with one another in order to separate themselves into two people.’
  23. ‘Opponents wrestle until one is thrown to the ground.’
  24. ‘For some sports such as wrestling
  25. no eye protection is available.’
  26. ‘Witnesses said that despite his age
  27. Bocus wrestled with the gunman
  28. who forced him to the ground and fired a shot through his mouth.’
  29. ‘All night the two wrestle
  30. but neither can defeat the other.’
  31. ‘When I caught up
  32. the pair of them were wrestling on the ground for what looked like
  33. believe it or not
  34. a cookie.’
  35. ‘Jumping
  36. running
  37. swimming
  38. wrestling
  39. and other sports activities are recreation for boys and young adults.’
  40. ‘Freya laughed
  41. and shook her head
  42. watching the 3 of them wrestle on the ground.’
  43. ‘The change
  44. in which both hero and beast are prone and wrestling on the ground
  45. gives a strikingly different appearance from the standing or kneeling schemes.’
  46. ‘Children with enlarged spleens should avoid contact sports (even wrestling with friends or siblings at home).’
  47. ‘The two battlers rolled about
  48. wrestling on the floor of the hallway.’