wrest

wrest is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
3. transitive verb. To tune with a wrest, or key.
4. noun. The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
5. noun. Active or moving power.
6. noun. A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
7. noun. A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
8. verb. obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically

   "wrest the knife from his hands"

   "wrest a meaning from the old text"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wrest:

strew, trews

Common word forms

wrests, wrested, wrester, wresting, wrestable

Words from these letters

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