wrest
/ɹɛst/ verb C2- 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.
He/she/it wrests · Past wrested · Past participle wrested · -ing form wresting
Verb forms
- Base form
- wrest
- He/she/it
- wrests
- Past
- wrested
- Past participle
- wrested
- -ing form
- wresting
From the library
But here are your bonds; pay me differently;” and he held the bonds towards Danglars, who seized them like a vulture extending its claws to withhold the food that is being wrested from its grasp.
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