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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.

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting..

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

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

Scuffle :: Scuffle (n.) A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters..

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

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.

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

Saw-wrest :: Saw-wrest (n.) See Saw-set.

Tackle :: Tackle (n.) To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game..

Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) designating a kind of hillside plow.

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..

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

Ceroma :: Ceroma (n.) The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.

Saw-set :: Saw-set (n.) An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; -- called also saw-wrest..

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

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

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

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

Force :: Force (n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc..

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