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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Hug :: Hug (n.) A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling..

Abstorted :: Abstorted (a.) Wrested away.

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

Palestrical :: Palestrical (a.) Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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