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Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

Tackle :: Tackle (n.) To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game..

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

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..

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

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

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

Wrester :: Wrester (n.) One who wrests.

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

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

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) Active or moving power.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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