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

Writhe :: Writhe (v. t.) To extort; to wring; to wrest.

Extortion :: Extortion (n.) The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge..

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

Lock :: Lock (n.) A grapple in wrestling.

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

Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wrester :: Wrester (n.) One who wrests.

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

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

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

Wrench :: Wrench (n.) To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence..

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend..

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