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