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Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

Down :: Down (v. t.) To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down..

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

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..

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

Wrestling :: Wrestling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrestl.

Wresting :: Wresting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wres.

Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling..

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..

Palestra :: Palestra (n.) A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling.

Wrestle :: Wrestle (n.) A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.

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

Wrestled :: Wrestled (imp. & p. p.) of Wrestl.

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.

Catachresis :: Catachresis (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, To take arms against a sea of troubles. Shak. Her voice was but the shadow of a sound. Young..

Overwrest :: Overwrest (v. t.) To wrest or force from the natural or proper position.

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

Hip :: Hip (v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

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