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Wrest 1

Definition: 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.

Wrest 2

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

Wrest 3

Definition: To tune with a wrest, or key.

Wrest 4

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

Wrest 5

Definition: Active or moving power.

Wrest 6

Definition: A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.

Wrest 7

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

wrest 8

Definition: 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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