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

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

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

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

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

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

Xystus :: Xystus (n.) A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather..

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

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

Catachrestical :: Catachrestical (a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched..

Ceroma :: Ceroma (n.) That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.

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

Overwrestle :: Overwrestle (v. t.) To subdue by wrestling.

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

Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..

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..

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

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

Trip :: Trip (v. t.) To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling..

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

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