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

Distort :: Distort (v. t.) To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning..

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

Contort :: Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest..

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

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

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

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..

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

Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist..

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..

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) Active or moving power.

Wrestler :: Wrestler (n.) One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.

Conistra :: Conistra (n.) Originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater..

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

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

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

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

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..

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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