verb · transitive · rare

wrest

wrest · wrests · wrested · wresting

вырвать, вырывать

entreißen

To pull or twist violentlyTo pull or twist violently.

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/ɹɛst/

» The policeman wrested a gun from the murderer.

Полицейский вырвал пистолет у убийцы.

Meaning

5 senses

(transitive)To pull or twist violently.
(transitive)To obtain by pulling or violent force.
He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.
entreißen
вы́рватьvýrvatʹ, вырыва́тьvyryvátʹ
(figuratively, transitive)To seize.
(figuratively, transitive)To distort, to pervert, to twist.
(transitive)To tune with a wrest, or key.

More definitions

obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically

Examples

5 sentences

The policeman wrested a gun from the murderer.
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Ivan is obsessed with dog wresting.
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I wrested the sword from his hands.
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Ask for the moon and I shall wrest it from the heavens.
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One of the kids tried to wrest his scooter out of the officer's hands.
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Translations

7 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

to obtain by pulling or violent force:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

to obtain by pulling or violent force:

Origin

From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wrǣstan (“to twist forcibl

From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wrǣstan (“to twist forcibly, wrench”), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijaną, (compare Proto-Germanic *wrīhaną (“to turn, wind; to cover, envelop”), *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist”), Old Norse reista (“to bend, twist”)), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-, *wreyḱ- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”). See also writhe, wry.

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