v. t. | 1. | |||||||
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. | |||||||
n. | 1. | The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion. | ||||||
2. | Active or moving power. | |||||||
3. | A key to tune a stringed instrument of music. | |||||||
4. | A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
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Verb | 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" |