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

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..

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

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

Writhe :: Writhe (v. t.) To extort; to wring; to wrest.

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

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

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

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

Conistra :: Conistra (n.) Originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater..

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

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.

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..

Wrestling :: Wrestling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrestl.

Pancratium :: Pancratium (n.) An athletic contest involving both boxing and 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..

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

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

Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) designating a kind of hillside plow.

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..

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