meaning of wrest
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.
2. To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
3. To tune with a wrest, or key.
4. The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
5. Active or moving power.
6. A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
7. A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
8. 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
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Related Words
wrest | wrested | wrester | wresting | wrestle | wrestled | wrestler | wrestling | wrestling hold | wrestling mat | wrestling match | wrestling ring |
