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

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion..

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent..

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

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

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