WREST

wrest

Noun

  1. The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
  2. Active or motive power.
  3. A key to tune a stringed instrument.
  4. A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.

Verb

  1. To pull or twist violently.
  2. To obtain by pulling or violent force.
    He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.
  3. To seize.
  4. To twist, pervert, distort.
  5. To tune with a wrest, or key.


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