Definitions for wrest



Overview of verb wrest

The verb wrest has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. wrest

(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")


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