wrest

/ɹˈɛst/

/ˈɹɛst/

[verb]

to wrest

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

to take something out of someone's hand usually by force

Examples

1. The power of money is wrested from the clutches of governments and central banks!

2. We must wrest this technology from their tiny polylingual hands!

3. In the northwestern uplands, the Illyrian army under a chieftain Bardylis had wrested control of strategic approaches, and was preparing to take the vulnerable heartland.

4. Milton is really wresting this poem away from its source in scripture and he's pushing it toward an entirely new genre.