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

Distortion :: Distortion (n.) A wresting from the true meaning.

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

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

Hip :: Hip (v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

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

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.

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..

Grapple :: Grapple (v. t.) A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold.

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..

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

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

Grapple :: Grapple (v. i.) To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another..

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

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

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..

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.

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

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

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