Wrests

verb

/ɹɛsts/

Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.verbTo pull or twist violently.

2.verbTo obtain by pulling or violent force.

"He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel."

3.verbTo seize.

4.verbTo distort, to pervert, to twist.

5.verbTo tune with a wrest, or key.

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