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

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

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

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

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

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

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key..

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

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

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

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..

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..

Grapple :: Grapple (v. t.) A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold.

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

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..

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

Wrastle :: Wrastle (v. i.) To wrestle.

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

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..

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..

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