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

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.

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

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

Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses..

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

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..

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

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

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

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

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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