rassled
Fought in dialect
Rassled is the past tense of rassle, a dialectal or informal pronunciation of wrestle.
It appears in casual speech and regional American English: We rassled in the backyard until Mom called us in.
The spelling captures the dropped syllable of actual pronunciation.
Brief physical struggle
- grappleSeize and fight closely
- scuffleBrief disorderly struggle
- wrangledArgued or herded
- tangledTwisted confusedly together
pinned · struggled · grabbed · held · gripped · clinched · locked · tumbled
Engaged in close combat
- contendedCompeted against others
- battledEngaged in conflict
- foughtEngaged in conflict
- laboredRequiring great exertion
toiled · strained · wrangled · tackled · dealt with · coped · managed · handled
tussle
Brief physical struggle
tangled · pinned · struggled · grabbed · held · gripped · clinched · locked · tumbled · roughhoused
grappled
Engaged in close combat
labored · toiled · strained · wrangled · tackled · dealt with · coped · managed · handled · worked through
badgered
Persistently pressured someone
nagged · dogged · pressured · tormented · plagued · bedeviled · hectored · ridden · picked on · worn down
flustered
Nervously upset and confused
- frazzledMentally and physically depleted
- rattledDisturbed and unsettled
- worked upEmotionally aroused, upset
keyed up · wound up · bothered · unsettled · ruffled · discombobulated · in a tizzy · stressed · harried · frantic
rassledyielded
Gave way or produced
surrendered · submitted · relaxed · rested · cooperated
rassledsurrendered
Ceased resistance formally
gave up · quit · capitulated · conceded · relented