wrest

Etymology 1
From, , , from , from , (compare 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬), from a derivative of , ,. See also,.

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

 * 1)  To pull or twist violently.
 * 2)  To obtain by pulling or violent force.
 * 3)  To seize.
 * 4)  To distort, to pervert, to twist.
 * 5)  To tune with a wrest, or key.
 * 1)  To seize.
 * 2)  To distort, to pervert, to twist.
 * 3)  To tune with a wrest, or key.
 * 1)  To distort, to pervert, to twist.
 * 2)  To tune with a wrest, or key.
 * 1)  To distort, to pervert, to twist.
 * 2)  To tune with a wrest, or key.
 * 1)  To tune with a wrest, or key.
 * 1)  To tune with a wrest, or key.
 * 1)  To tune with a wrest, or key.
 * 1)  To tune with a wrest, or key.

Usage notes
In modern usage, almost always followed with a preposition such as "from," "away from," or "out of."

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,


 * Arabic: اِنْتَزَعَ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Cebuano: ilog
 * Czech: vyrvat, vykroutit
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: arrancar
 * German:
 * Ido: ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Maori: whakariro
 * Norwegian: fravriste
 * Occitan: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1) The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
 * 2)  A key to tune a stringed instrument.
 * 3)  Active or motive power.
 * 4)  ; a saw set.
 * 1)  Active or motive power.
 * 2)  ; a saw set.
 * 1)  ; a saw set.
 * 1)  ; a saw set.

Etymology 2


Possibly a variant of : see the quotation. Wrist is also derived from, from a derivative of , ,.

Noun

 * 1) A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.

Etymology 3
A misspelling of, probably influenced by wrest (etymology 1, verb and noun).

Noun

 * 1)  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.