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

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

Wrestle :: Wrestle (n.) A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.

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

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

Pancratium :: Pancratium (n.) An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

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

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

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

Pentathlon :: Pentathlon (n.) A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear..

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

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

Saw-wrest :: Saw-wrest (n.) See Saw-set.

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

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..

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..

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

Ceroma :: Ceroma (n.) The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.

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

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..

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