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Distortion :: Distortion (n.) A wresting from the true meaning.

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

Saw-set :: Saw-set (n.) An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; -- called also saw-wrest..

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

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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