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Wrest has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.

2

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

3

A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.

Verb
1

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"

2

To pull or twist violently.

Example Sentences
"wrest the knife from his hands" verb
"wrest a meaning from the old text" verb
"wrest power from the old government" verb
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
seize
Rhyming Words
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