wrest
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortionThe act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
» The policeman wrested a gun from the murderer.
Полицейский вырвал пистолет у убийцы. — noneim
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5 sensesThe act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
A key to tune a stringed instrument.
A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
(dated, dialectal)A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.
(obsolete)Active or motive power.
Examples
5 sentencesThe policeman wrested a gun from the murderer.
ruПолицейский вырвал пистолет у убийцы. — noneim
Ivan is obsessed with dog wresting.
I wrested the sword from his hands.
Ask for the moon and I shall wrest it from the heavens.
One of the kids tried to wrest his scooter out of the officer's hands.
Origin
From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wrǣstan (“to twist forciblFrom 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.
Possibly a variant of wrist: see the quotation. Wrist is also derived from *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist”), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-, *wreyḱ- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”).
A misspelling of rest, probably influenced by wrest (etymology 1, verb and noun).
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