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(transitive) To pull or twist violently. / (transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force. / (transitive, figuratively) To seize. / (transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.

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wrest

/ɹɛst/

verb

(transitive) To pull or twist violently. / (transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force. / (transitive, figuratively) To seize. / (transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.

He tried to wrest the gun from her hands.

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意味（1）

(transitive) To pull or twist violently.

意味（2）

(transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force.

He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.

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意味（3）

(transitive, figuratively) To seize.

[S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; …

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