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

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

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

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

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

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

Grapple :: Grapple (v. i.) To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another..

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

Catachresis :: Catachresis (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, To take arms against a sea of troubles. Shak. Her voice was but the shadow of a sound. Young..

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

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

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully..

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

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

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