Word Meanings - OVERWRESTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To subdue by wrestling. Spenser.

WRESTLE
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
SUBDUEMENT
Subdual. Shak.
SUBDUE
1. To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish. I will subdue all thine enemies. 1 Chron. xvii. 10. 2. To overpower so as to disable from further
WRESTLING
Act of one who wrestles; specif., the sport consisting of the hand-to-hand combat between two unarmed contestants who seek to throw each other. The various styles of wrestling differ in their definition of a fall and in the governing rules.
SUBDUER
One who, or that which, subdues; a conqueror. Spenser.
SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
WRESTLER
One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.
SUBDUED
1. Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild. 2. Not glaring in color; soft in tone.
DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
OVERWRESTLE
To subdue by wrestling. Spenser.