Wrest

[wrest]

To wrest is to forcefully grab or take something away. You can wrest away many things, such as remote controls and championships.

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To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.

Verb
obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically; "wrest the knife from his hands"; "wrest a meaning from the old text"; "wrest power from the old government"

v. t.
To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.

v. t.
To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.

v. t.
To tune with a wrest, or key.

n.
The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.

n.
Active or moving power.

n.
A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.

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

Wrest

Wrest , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrested; p. pr. & vb. n. Wresting.] [OE. wresten, AS. wrstan; akin to wr a twisted band, and wr'c6n to twist. See Writhe.] 1. To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting. "The secret wrested from me." Milton.
Our country's cause, That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand.
They instantly wrested the government out of the hands of Hastings.
2. To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
Wrest once the law to your authority.
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor.
Their arts of wresting, corrupting, and false interpreting the holy text.
3. To tune with a wrest, or key. [Obs.]

Wrest

Wrest, n. 1. The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion. Hooker. 2. Active or moving power. [Obs.] Spenser. 3. A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
The minstrel . . . wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest, or key, with which he tuned his harp.
4. A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined. Wrest pin (Piano Manuf.), one of the pins around which the ends of the wires are wound in a piano. Knight. -- Wrest plank (Piano Manuf.), the part in which the wrest pins are inserted.

To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.

The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.

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Usage Examples

The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.