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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

Tackle :: Tackle (n.) To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game..

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

Wrester :: Wrester (n.) One who wrests.

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

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

Gymnastical :: Gymnastical (a.) Pertaining to athletic exercises intended for health, defense, or diversion; -- said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; also, pertaining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect; athletic; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc..

Outwrest :: Outwrest (v. t.) To extort; to draw from or forth by violence.

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

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

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting..

Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling..

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

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