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tussle
[ tuhs-uhl ]
verb (used without object)
- to struggle or fight roughly or vigorously; wrestle; scuffle.
noun
- a rough physical contest or struggle; scuffle.
- any vigorous or determined struggle, conflict, etc.:
I had quite a tussle with that chemistry exam.
tussle
/ ˈtʌsəl /
verb
- intr to fight or wrestle in a vigorous way; struggle
noun
- a vigorous fight; scuffle; struggle
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Example Sentences
But first, there's a tussle with the senior senator from Arizona to take care of.
They would rustle and tussle it for like three minutes and that was it!
Without his high-school wrestling experience, she might have won the tussle.
Behind the scenes the speech was the subject of an intense tussle.
Both Parks and Brechneff tussle with the idea of being almost insiders.
Streams which a boy could wade last March would now give an elephant a tussle.
There was a terrible tussle, but the white man finally killed his huge enemy.
"I'm quite sure that I don't want another sich a tussle," meditated the Deacon.
After the friendly tussle, the mother and daughter continued on their journey to the forks of the Shaeyela.
However the reis pluckily led the way, and seized him by the hind leg, when the crowd of men rushed in, and we had a grand tussle.
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