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Wrest logo #10101) Anagram for strew 2) Appropriate by force 3) Extort 4) Extract by force 5) Extract forcefully 6) Force away from 7) Force violently 8) Forcefully take away 9) Forcibly take 10) Gain by effort 11) Gain by force 12) Jerk away 13) Jerk with force 14) Obtain despite resistance 15) Pry free 16) Pull forcibly
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Wrest logo #10101) Extract 2) Grab 3) Mr ed 4) Rend 5) Seize 6) Tear 7) Usurp
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Wrest logo #21002• (v. t.) 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. • (n.) Active or moving power. • (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined. • (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key. • (v. t.) To turn from truth; to ...
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Wrest logo #20972Wrest noun 1. The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion. Hooker. 2. Active or moving power. [ Obsolete] Spenser. 3. A key to tune a stringed instrument of music. « The minstrel . . . wore round his neck a silver chain, ...
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Wrest logo #20972Wrest transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Wrested ; present participle & verbal noun Wresting .] [ Middle English wresten , Anglo-Saxon wr...stan ; akin to wr...... a twisted band, and wrī...n
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Wrest logo #21217A wrest was formerly a small key used to tune a piano or harp.
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wrest logo #20400[v] - obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically
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wrest logo #23665[SAT terms] obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically
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