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wrest
noun
verb
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
Quick reference
Word Facts
- Word length
- 5
- Starts with
- W
- Ends with
- T
- Contains
- RES
- Scrabble score
- 8
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
How it sounds
Pronunciation
/ɹɛst/
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Meaning
Definitions
noun
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
A key to tune a stringed instrument.
Active or motive power.
Short for saw wrest; a saw set.
verb
To pull or twist violently.
To obtain by pulling or violent force.
“He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.”
To seize.
To distort, to pervert, to twist.
To tune with a wrest, or key.
noun
A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
noun
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.
In context
Example Sentences
He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.