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Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

Catachrestical :: Catachrestical (a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched..

Outwrest :: Outwrest (v. t.) To extort; to draw from or forth by violence.

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully..

Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent..

Wry :: Wry (a.) To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.

Pancratium :: Pancratium (n.) An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.

Exact :: Exact (a.) To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one..

Agonize :: Agonize (v. i.) To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.

Hug :: Hug (n.) A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling..

Wrested :: Wrested (imp. & p. p.) of Wres.

Scuffle :: Scuffle (v. i.) To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.

Trip :: Trip (n.) A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing..

Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To distort; to pervert; to wrest.

Grapple :: Grapple (v. i.) To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another..

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key..

Distortion :: Distortion (n.) A wresting from the true meaning.

Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..

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