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    wrest
    [rest]
    verb
    wrest (verb) · wrests (third person present) · wrested (past tense) · wrested (past participle) · wresting (present participle)
    1. forcibly pull (something) from a person's grasp:
      "Leila tried to wrest her arm from his hold"
      • take (something, especially power or control) from someone or something else after considerable effort or difficulty:
        "they wanted to allow people to wrest control of their lives from impersonal bureaucracies"
      • archaic
        distort the meaning or interpretation of (something) to suit one's own interests or views:
        "you appear convinced of my guilt, and wrest every reply I have made"
    noun
    archaic
    wrest (noun) · wrests (plural noun)
    1. a key for tuning a harp or piano.
    Origin
    Old English wrǣstan ‘twist, tighten’, of Germanic origin; related to Danish vriste, also to wrist.
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