Grappling: alternatives and connections

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

of Wrestle

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.