| 单词 | wrest |
| 释义 | wrest (once / 1304 pages) v To wrest is to forcefully grab or take something away. You can wrest away many things, such as remote controls and championships. This word is strong and a little violent. It's not easy to wrest something away. Wresting away is a little like "wrestling" something away — you can't get it without a fight. Objects can be wrested away, but so can non-physical things. In a tough election, you could say the new president wrests away the title of commander-in-chief from the incumbent candidate. WORD FAMILYwrest: wrested, wrester, wresting, wrests+/wrester: wresters USAGE EXAMPLESLarge swaths of the western city of Ramadi were destroyed in the offensive to wrest it from IS control. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Operations to wrest the group from Mosul, their last major stronghold in Iraq, began in October. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) He wrests back the Oval Office from the left-leaning circus that is our creative class. Salon(Dec 29, 2016) v obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically wrest the knife from his hands wrest a meaning from the old text wrest power from the old government Hyper seize take or capture by force |
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