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Definition of wrest

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

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

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

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

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

Saw-set :: Saw-set (n.) An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; -- called also saw-wrest..

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend..

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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..

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

Backfall :: Backfall (n.) A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.

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

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