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Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist..

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

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

Down :: Down (v. t.) To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down..

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

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..

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

Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

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).

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

Agonize :: Agonize (v. i.) To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.

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