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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Saw-wrest :: Saw-wrest (n.) See Saw-set.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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..

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

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