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

Wrestled :: Wrestled (imp. & p. p.) of Wrestl.

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

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

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

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

Hip :: Hip (v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

Detort :: Detort (v. t.) To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest.

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

Force :: Force (n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc..

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