wrestles in English

noun
1
a wrestling bout or contest.
a wrestle to the death
2
a hard struggle.
a lifelong wrestle with depression
verb
1
take part in a fight, either as a sport or in earnest, that involves grappling with one's opponent and trying to throw or force them to the ground.
as the policeman wrestled with the gunman a shot rang out
2
struggle with a difficulty or problem.
for over a year David wrestled with a guilty conscience
synonyms:grapplefightstrugglecontendviebattlewranglescuffletusslebrawlscrapwrasslerassle
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1. After the Apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind.

2. Her Breasts are revealed when the crass collector, played by John Lone, performs the obeisance of shaving her armpits, then again when she tub-wrestles with the …

3. As Irene's husband Charles, a businessman collaborating with the Nazis, wrestles with his conscience, Sophie becomes obsessed with Irene, taking on the role of maid as well as Accompanist

4. The practice of Contemplative meditation can be used to assist in making big life decisions or throughout the day, as one wrestles with habits of thought & behavior.

5. But after the Apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and resolves to avenge his kind, pitting him against the Colonel in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their speciesand the future of the planet.

6. For example, physics professor Conyers Herring, who acknowledges a belief in God, states: “I reject the idea of a God who long ago set a great clockwork in motion and has since been sitting back as a spectator while mankind wrestles with the puzzle.

7. We follow a Claque of frumpy, ego-jostling, middle-aged academics on a tour of the Terrezenstadt Nazi concentration camp where Landau wrestles mightilyagainst his own jealousies and under a cruelly blazing sun--to construe justly and objectively his flamboyant yet vexing rival, Jiri Krakauer, star writer and academic, who, although deserving of