| Main Entry: | wrestle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | struggle physically or mentally with something |
Synonyms: |
battle, combat, contend, endeavor, essay, exert, fight, grapple, grunt, scuffle, strain, strive, tangle, tussle, work |
| Main Entry: | battle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight, struggle |
Synonyms: |
agitate, argue, clamor, combat, contend, contest, dispute, feud, oppugn, skirmish, strive, tug, war, wrestle |
Antonyms: |
make peace |
| Main Entry: | brawl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight nastily |
Synonyms: |
altercate, argue, battle, bicker, buck*, caterwaul, dispute, kick up a row, quarrel, raise Cain, roughhouse, row, rumble*, scrap, scuffle, spat, squabble, tussle, wrangle, wrestle |
Antonyms: |
make peace |
| Main Entry: | compete |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go up against in contest |
Synonyms: |
attempt, bandy, battle, be in the running, bid, challenge, clash, collide, contend, contest, cope with, emulate, encounter, essay, face, fence, fight, go after, go for broke, go for the gold, go for, grapple, in the hunt, jockey for position, joust, lock horns, match strength, match wits, oppose, participate in, pit oneself against, play, rival, run for, scramble for, seek prize, spar, strive, struggle, take on, take part, tilt, try, tussle, vie, wrestle |
| Main Entry: | cope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | manage, contend |
Synonyms: |
battle with, buffet, carry on, confront, deal, dispatch, encounter, endure, face, get a handle on, get by, grapple, hack it, hack*, handle, hold one's own, live with, make go of it, make it, make out, make the grade, pit oneself against, rise to occasion, struggle, struggle through, suffer, survive, tangle, tussle, weather, wrestle |
| Main Entry: | fight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | engage in physical encounter |
Synonyms: |
altercate, assault, attack, bandy with, battle, bear arms, bicker, box, brawl, brush with, buck, carry on war, challenge, clash, contend, cross swords, dispute, do battle, duel, exchange blows, feud, flare up, go to war, grapple, joust, meet, mix it up, oppugn, ply weapons, protect, quarrel, repel, resist, rowdy, scrap, scuffle, skirmish, spar, strive, struggle, take all comers, take the field, take up the gauntlet, tiff, tilt, traverse, tug, tussle, wage war, war, withstand, wrangle, wrestle |
Antonyms: |
agree, make peace, surrender, yield |
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen on |
Synonyms: |
accost, affront, brush against, bump into, chance on, clash, collide, come across, come up against, confront, contact, cross, dig up, encounter, engage, experience, face, fall in with, find, front, get together, grapple, greet, hit, light, luck*, make a meet, meet face to face, rendezvous with, rub eyeballs, run across, run into, run up against, salute, see, strike, stumble, touch shoulders, tumble, tussle, wrestle |
Antonyms: |
miss |
| Main Entry: | scuffle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight |
Synonyms: |
clash, come to blows, contend, cuff, grapple, jostle, skirmish, struggle, tussle, wrestle |
Antonyms: |
make peace |
| Main Entry: | skirmish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight |
Synonyms: |
altercate, argue, battle, bicker, brawl, clash, combat, conflict, cross swords, dispute, do battle, engage, feud, go to war, grapple, mix it up, quarrel, scrap, scuffle, spar, struggle, tussle, wage war, war, wrangle, wrestle |
| Main Entry: | tussle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | struggle |
Synonyms: |
battle, box, brawl, bump heads, conflict, contest, fight, go up against, grapple, hassle, lock horns, put up a fight, romp, rough-house, row, scrap, scuffle, tangle, wrestle |
| Notes: | to tousle is to dishevel or make something untidy; to tussle is to scuffle |