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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent..

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

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

Gymnastical :: Gymnastical (a.) Pertaining to athletic exercises intended for health, defense, or diversion; -- said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; also, pertaining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect; athletic; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc..

Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) designating a kind of hillside plow.

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

Conistra :: Conistra (n.) Originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater..

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

Contort :: Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest..

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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