PHRASALVERBS
wrest sth from sb/sth (formal)
1 to take sth such as power or control from sb/sth with great effort:
They attempted to wrest control of the town from government forces.
2 to take sth from sb that they do not want to give, suddenly or violently:
He wrested the gun from my grasp.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for wrest is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is wrest a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, wrest is tagged as verb.
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