[], (Verb)

Definitions:
- To show reluctance to do something.

- To struggle; to show dislike or opposition; to display reluctance. Now rare. With against, at, to.

- Without construction.


Phrases:

Origin:
early 16th century (in an earlier sense). From classical Latin reluctārī to struggle, resist, to offer resistance, to show reluctance from re- + luctārī to struggle