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Wrestled :: Wrestled (imp. & p. p.) of Wrestl.

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Palestra :: Palestra (n.) A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling.

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

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

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

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