1. [n]  the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat; "they had a fierce wrestle"; "we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully"
2. [v]  engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate; "I wrestled with this decision for years"
3. [v]  combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force; "He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority"
4. [v]  engage in a wrestling match; "The children wrestled in the garden"
5. [v]  to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (esp. when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort."; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace."

1. \Wres"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wrestled}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Wrestling}.] [OE. wrestlen, wrastlen, AS. wr?stlian,
   freq. of wr?stan to wrest; akin to OD. wrastelen to wrestle.
   See {Wrest}, v. t.]
   1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or
      throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
            To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that
            escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him
            well.                                 --Shak.
            Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of
            the clavicle from the sternum.        --Wiseman.
   2. Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
            Come, wrestle with thy affections.    --Shak.
            We wrestle not against flesh and blood. --Eph. vi.
                                                  12.
            Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled.
                                                  --M. Arnold.
   

2. \Wres"tle\, v. t.
   To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
   

3. \Wres"tle\, n.
   A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the
   other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a
   struggle.
         Whom in a wrestle the giant catching aloft, with a
         terrible hug broke three of his ribs.    --Milton.
   

(Eph. 6:12). See GAMES.