Definition of wrest

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Wrest (v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.

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Wresting :: Wresting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wres.
Wrestler :: Wrestler (n.) One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.
Hug :: Hug (n.) A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling..
Lock :: Lock (n.) A grapple in wrestling.
Grapple :: Grapple (v. t.) A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold.
Contort :: Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest..
Backfall :: Backfall (n.) A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.
Tackle :: Tackle (n.) To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game..
Wrastle :: Wrastle (v. i.) To wrestle.
Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend..
Catachresis :: Catachresis (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, To take arms against a sea of troubles. Shak. Her voice was but the shadow of a sound. Young..
Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..
Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) designating a kind of hillside plow.
Wrench :: Wrench (n.) To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence..
Overwrestle :: Overwrestle (v. t.) To subdue by wrestling.
Pull :: Pull (n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull..
Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent..
Saw-wrest :: Saw-wrest (n.) See Saw-set.
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