English Dictionary

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.

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.

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; …

意味（4）

(transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.

And I beſeech you / Wreſt once the Law to your authority, / To do a great right, do a little wrong, / And curbe this cruell deuill of his will.

意味（5）

(transitive, music) To tune with a wrest, or key.

The Harpe. A harpe geueth ſounde as it is ſette / The harper may wreſt it vntunablye