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

Overwrest :: Overwrest (v. t.) To wrest or force from the natural or proper position.

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

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

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

Palestra :: Palestra (n.) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general..

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..

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

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

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..

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

Pull :: Pull (n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull..

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.

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

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

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

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

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key..

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

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