wrest
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Synonyms: crest, rest, prest, brest, west, wrist, drest, trest, krest, wriest, weest
Antonyms: crest, rest, prest, brest, west, wrist, drest, trest, krest, wriest, weest
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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
- The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
- A key to tune a stringed instrument.
- Active or motive power.
- Ellipsis of saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set.
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.
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