as in to wrestle
to seize and attempt to unbalance one another for the purpose of achieving physical mastery
the boys would rassle and roughhouse for hours on end
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Clark wrestled a rebound away from UCF’s Themus Fulks with 16 seconds left and began to dribble away – only to lose the ball out of bounds.—
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And Duke — a blueblood with five NCAA titles — spent much of Thursday in serious danger of being added to that list before finally wrestling away control of the game in the last 8 minutes.—
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“Rassle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rassle. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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