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Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.

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

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

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..

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

Scuffle :: Scuffle (n.) A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters..

Grapple :: Grapple (v. t.) A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold.

Pentathlon :: Pentathlon (n.) A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear..

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

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..

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..

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

Grapple :: Grapple (v. i.) To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one another..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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