zápasit — meaning in English
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English meaning
- contend verb To compete or struggle against someone or something.
- fight verb To engage in physical combat or violence with someone.
- grapple verb To struggle hard with a difficult problem or situation.
- struggle verb To make a strong, difficult effort to do, achieve, or overcome something.
- wrestle verb To grapple with an opponent, trying to throw or pin them down, often as a sport.
Senses
zápasit is used for these senses in English:
- contend (intransitive) To be in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
- fight (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
- grapple (figuratively, with with) To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with.
- struggle To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
- wrestle To grapple or otherwise contend with an opponent in order to throw or force them to the ground, chiefly as a sport or in unarmed combat.
contend — full definition
- verb To compete or struggle against someone or something.
- verb To argue firmly that something is true.
fight — full definition
- verb To engage in physical combat or violence with someone.
- verb To struggle or campaign strongly for or against something.
- noun An instance of physical combat or a violent confrontation.
- noun A conflict, argument, or contest, not necessarily physical.
- noun The determination or spirit needed to keep struggling.