Synonyms for tussle

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : tuhs-uh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʌs əl

Top 10 synonyms for tussle

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Définition of tussle

Origin : late 15c., Scottish and northern English variant of touselen (see tousle). Related: Tussled; tussling. The noun is first recorded 1620s but rare before 19c.

noun struggle
verb struggle

Example sentences :

Jim-the-ladder has been a prize-fighter in his day, and there was a tussle.
Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine

Just a bit of a tussle now and then to keep you from dropping off.
Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine

Lydia didn't want him to tussle, but she did want him at the top.
Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

I came upon it from a tussle with the sea—and I was young—and I saw it looking at me.
Extract from : « Youth » by Joseph Conrad

Then, perhaps, there might be a tussle between them as to which should have his own way,—or hers.
Extract from : « Kept in the Dark » by Anthony Trollope

Every frontiersman was preparing for a tussle with the hated Spaniard.
Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson

There was a rush and a tussle, and the baker ran to Stevie; but something had gone splash!
Extract from : « Golden Moments » by Anonymous

All this was exciting enough, but it was as nothing to the tussle at the head of the school.
Extract from : « Tom, Dick and Harry » by Talbot Baines Reed

We'll have our hands full, Eunice, when the tussle really begins.
Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Salem » by Amanda Minnie Douglas

Westland saw that he was in for a tussle and braced himself.
Extract from : « Baseball Joe Around the World » by Lester Chadwick

Antonyms for tussle

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