Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

arm-wrestle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English

Syllables: ar-m-wres-tle
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bout of arm wrestling.

verb

To compete in an arm-wrestle (with).

verb

To struggle (with) for dominance.

Example Sentences

"Unable to give any answer, Benhur finds himself being arm-wrestled on both sides; he feels like a boy with them, unscathed as yet by Tuesday morning in Constitutional Law"
"I arm-wrestled a promise from Gordon Dempsey that news of our night in Atlantic City would go no further."
"In fact, throughout 1946, they continued to arm-wrestle over which of them was entitled to philosophize."
"The idea that war and conflicts are purely rational, calculable considerations lives on today. Even if the playing fields for the superpowers' arm-wrestling matches are no longer Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw, but instead Kabul, Tehran and Peshawar."

Etymology

From arm + wrestle.

Inflected Forms

arm-wrestles (plural) arm wrestle (alternative) arm-wrestles (present, singular) arm-wrestling (participle, present) arm-wrestled (participle, past) arm-wrestled (past)

Phrases

arm-wrestler arm-wrestling

Synonyms

pull wrists

Questions

What does arm-wrestle mean?: A bout of arm wrestling.
Where does arm-wrestle come from?: From arm + wrestle.

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