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Word entry · 9 letters

wrestling

Best crossword clue

"Mat combat"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ/Part of speech nounSorted egilnrstwStarts with WEnds with G2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down

Word origin

From late Old English wræstlung.

Used in a sentence

  • […] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry […]
  • I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow[…]

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Mat combat9 letters
02Mat sport9 letters

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