What's the difference between cope and wrestle?

Cope


Definition:

  • (n.) A covering for the head.
  • (n.) Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.
  • (n.) An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.
  • (n.) An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
  • (n.) The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.
  • (v. i.) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
  • (v. t.) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).
  • (v. i.) To exchange or barter.
  • (v. i.) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
  • (v. i.) To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with.
  • (v. t.) To bargain for; to buy.
  • (v. t.) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
  • (v. t.) To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
  • (2) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
  • (3) However, it is easier for them to cope with anxiety because premedication pacifies the patients, whereas each of the dependent variables, such as apprehension, is influenced differently.
  • (4) In light of these findings, the implications of the need to address appraisals and coping efforts in research and therapy with incest victims was emphasized.
  • (5) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
  • (6) The independent effects of pain and pain coping strategies, as well as the interaction effects between pain and pain coping strategies on depression, were evaluated cross-sectionally and prospectively over a 6-month interval.
  • (7) There are general problems with the ways in which coping has been conceptualized and measured by researchers evaluating stress and coping, and there are problems more specific to the ways coping concepts and measures have been used to study patients with arthritis.
  • (8) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
  • (9) The example of psychosocial stress (coping with the diagnosis, self esteem, life crises etc.)
  • (10) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
  • (11) Avoidance coping was negatively related to dispositional optimism.
  • (12) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
  • (13) Lazarus' phenomenological theory of stress and coping provided the basis for this descriptive study of perceived threats after myocardial infarction (MI).
  • (14) A total of 54 family caregivers of elderly dementia patients completed interviews and questionnaires assessing the severity of patient impairment and caregiving stressors; caregiver appraisals, coping responses, and social support and activity; and caregiver outcomes, including depression, life satisfaction, and self-rated health.
  • (15) Recent theoretical developments in health psychology and allied disciplines on coping behaviour and social support should be integrated into biomedical models of the aetiology, pathogenesis and clinical course of malignant neoplasia.
  • (16) He joined the Coldstream Guards, while Debo and her mother went to Berne to collect Unity, who had put a bullet through her brain but survived, severely damaged; they coped with Unity's resultant moodiness and incontinence through the first year of war.
  • (17) The benefits of holistically identifying clients' ability to mobilize coping resources is that nurses can plan intervention more effectively if these categorizations can be consistently verified.
  • (18) It was suggested that treatment outcome in a multidisciplinary pain clinic is more immediately related to patients' coping styles and their choice of pain treatment modalities than to their demographics and personalities.
  • (19) To be frank, the police cannot cope with the extent of abuse on social media.
  • (20) During the nursing period the person who has psychological problems goes through a transitional period, in which he becomes responsible for coping with his problems, which are being expressed in various ways.

Wrestle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
  • (v. t.) To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
  • (n.) A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
  • (2) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
  • (3) Can the protests, which tried, ultimately without success, to wrestle genuine universal suffrage from Beijing, be called a failure?
  • (4) However, the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander , is adamant Labour could not afford to spend the first two years of government wrestling with a referendum on Europe, pointing to the energy it had expended on the near-disastrous no campaign for the Scotland independence vote.
  • (5) Anthropometric characteristics, passive hip flexion, and spinal mobility were examined and back pain was registered in 116 top Swedish male athletes representing four different sports (wrestling, gymnastics, soccer, tennis).
  • (6) But the Lib Dems' conference, which starts on Saturday in Glasgow, may be marked by a series of internal disputes as the leadership and party activists wrestle over strategy, policies and the independence of its manifesto.
  • (7) Celebrity Wrestling is the biggest failure of the ITV 2005 schedule so far.
  • (8) Heselden's only reservation about the ceremony, said David Robinson, would have been the time it took 30 or more staff to wrestle with erecting the marquee.
  • (9) This failure to wrestle with what’s coming goes wider.
  • (10) Updated at 6.57pm BST 6.49pm BST A congressman, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), once lost an arm-wrestling match against Russian president Vladimir Putin , and now he has told the world about it.
  • (11) Instead he realised that while his teammates were wrestling him on the ground in celebration, he hadn’t yet shaken hands with his opponent, David Goffin.
  • (12) – are all questions that many health and care economies around the country are still wrestling with.
  • (13) But Bony knows he has the trust of me and the team.” A second Ivorian joined him among the goals when Damien Delaney wrestled Eliaquim Mangala to the ground and Touré scored from the resulting penalty.
  • (14) Hookem said: “It was two people grappling, that had hold of each other, and were basically still stood up but wrestling.
  • (15) He had wrestled one of the gunmen – there were marks on his arms where he had attempted to fight them off – and been shot in the chest, dying instantly.
  • (16) A wrestler's weight is often determined by the need to fill a wrestling class and not on a good scientific basis.
  • (17) It is by no means a total success artistically but it has enough tension, feeling and originality of theme and speech to make the choice understandable, and the evening must have given to anyone who has wrestled with the mechanics of play-making an uneasy and yet not wasted jaunt, just as it must have awoken echoes in anyone one who has not forgotten the frustrations of youth.
  • (18) There are a number of common problems that affect the whole of our media spectrum, all of which have at some point to be wrestled to the ground if we're to ever move beyond what I see as this potentially self-destructive phase in our historical development.
  • (19) The room held 52' Carl Hutchinson My childhood hero was World Wrestling Entertainment's Mick Foley .
  • (20) So it is with Ukip: this party has made no rational sense since it captured the name from its anti-federalist founders and wrestled it into a one-man, anti-everything machine.