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Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

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

Close :: Close (n.) A grapple 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..

Wry :: Wry (superl.) Wrested; perverted.

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

Palestra :: Palestra (n.) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general..

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

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

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

Detort :: Detort (v. t.) To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest.

Pentathlon :: Pentathlon (n.) A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear..

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

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

Palestrical :: Palestrical (a.) Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling..

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

Backfall :: Backfall (n.) A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.

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

Pull :: Pull (n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull..

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

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