Wrest
To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.
To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
To tune with a wrest, or key.
The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
Active or moving power.
A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
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Wrest Translations
wrest in Dutch is knevelen, afpersen, afdwingen
wrest in Italian is arraffare
wrest in Portuguese is mais wrest
wrest in Spanish is arrebatar
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