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to wrest
01
to forcibly pull or take something, often from someone's grasp
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
wrest
3rd person singular
wrests
Present participle
wresting
Past simple
wrested
Past participle
wrested
Examples
He managed to wrest the gun from the attacker's hands.
Lexical Tree
wrester
wrest
