单词	wrest
释义	wrestwrest /rest/ verb [transitive always + adverb/preposition] Word Origin WORD ORIGINwrest Origin: Old English wræstan Verb Table VERB TABLE wrest Simple Form Present I, you, we, they wrest he, she, it wrests Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they wrested Present perfect I, you, we, they have wrested he, she, it has wrested Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had wrested Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will wrest Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have wrested Continuous Form Present I am wresting he, she, it is wresting you, we, they are wresting Past I, he, she, it was wresting you, we, they were wresting Present perfect I, you, we, they have been wresting he, she, it has been wresting Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been wresting Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be wresting Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been wresting Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES A security guard managed to wrest the gun from the man. The Democrats failed in wresting control of Congress from the Republicans. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Feet braced, back arched, she put both hands on the machine, trying to wrest it back. I stood up, wresting myself out of this nightmare. In their view, the automatic machinery was unreliable and the management was wrong to attempt to wrest controls from the shop-floor. Mr Hikmatyar is trying to wrest control of the capital from the defence minister, Ahmad Shah Masood. Only the inner satellites were its permanent property; the Sun could never wrest them from its grasp. That alliance promised the prospect of a kingdom in the areas which they wrested from Ottoman control. The former building society is understood to be prepared to take court action if it does not wrest the compensation from Lloyds. The thought of reclaiming what had been wrongfully wrested from him began to sough through every fevered fiber of his being. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► try · Here in these slum streets existed an army of the unskilled, all trying to wrest a living anyway they could.· Feet braced, back arched, she put both hands on the machine, trying to wrest it back.· Mr Hikmatyar is trying to wrest control of the capital from the defence minister, Ahmad Shah Masood.· He seized the broomstick between his strong teeth and began to leap about, trying to wrest it from Angela's grasp.· Yet basically it was a team of people trying to wrest power, not a populist-based overthrow. 1 formal to take power or influence away from someone, especially when this is difficult:  They are fighting to wrest control of the party from the old leaders.2 literary to pull something away from someone violently:  I managed to wrest the photograph from his grasp.
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