Usually means: Forcefully pull away from someone.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. wrest: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wrest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wrest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wrest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wrest: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wrest, wrest: Wordnik
  7. wrest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wrest: Wiktionary
  9. wrest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wrest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wrest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wrest: Dictionary.com
  13. wrest: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wrest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wrest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wrest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wrest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wrest: Rhymezone
  19. Wrest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wrest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wrest: Free Dictionary
  22. wrest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wrest: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wrest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wrest: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. wrest: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wrest: The Folk File
  2. Wrest: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See wrested as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
verb:  (transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To seize.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.
verb:  (transitive, music) To tune with a wrest, or key.
noun:  The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
noun:  (music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
noun:  (obsolete) Active or motive power.
noun:  A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
noun:  (agriculture, dated, dialectal) A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) Short for saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set. [A saw set.]

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