meaning of wrests

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.
4.
The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
5.
Active or moving power.
6.
A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
7.
A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
8.
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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wrest | wrested | wrester | wresting | wrestle | wrestled | wrestler | wrestling | wrestling hold | wrestling mat | wrestling match | wrestling ring |

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