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obtain with difficult effort or force- The radical wing of the party is trying to wrest control from the moderates.
wrest = take (with effort)
- He wrested the knife from her hands.
- I'm trying to wrest a meaning from the old text.
- They wrested power from the old government.
- In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- All brutality and reprimand were wrested from her face.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- I stayed up late, twisting my hair into knots as I tried to wrest meaning from the textbook, then lying in bed and brooding over my notes.Tara Westover -- Educated
- He tried to wrest the key from Catherine's grasp, and for safety she flung it into the hottest part of the fire; whereupon Mr. Edgar was taken with a nervous trembling, and his countenance grew deadly pale.Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
- The "pillar of light," which was supposed to follow Harold Crosby's now-interrupted, risky descent, appeared to have a will of its own; it illuminated Owen on the mountain of hay, as if the light had wrested control of itself from Barb Wiggin.John Irving -- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- They had been given to me by the bishop, and I was still trying to wrest meaning from them.Tara Westover -- Educated
- I saw their faces superimposed on every purlin Shawn welded into place that summer, so that by the end of it, I had finally begun to grasp something that should have been immediately apparent: that someone had opposed the great march toward equality; someone had been the person from whom freedom had to be wrested.Tara Westover -- Educated
- I will settle them on the Gift, once I have wrested it away from your new Lord Commander.George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
- He drew clumsily and fired absurdly, and in another moment he was struck in the mouth and the revolver wrested from his grip.H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
- I wished to bury it during my whole life in my own bosom, but your brother Maximilian wrested it from me by a violence he repents of now, I am sure.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- But these were hard things to do, because the people must learn that it is harmful for each man to wrest a living from his own little piece of ground.Alan Paton -- Cry, the Beloved Country
- CHAPTER XXXII And I beseech you, Wrest once the law, to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- As he was wresting it free, a blaze of white appeared at the edge of his vision.George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
- Her brothers would laugh and try to wrest the page from each other with their strong hard fingers.James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- If any female now playing is to wrest the title of world chess champion from men, it is likely to be her.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
wrested = took by force
wrest = obtain with effort
wrested = took
wrest = take (with effort)
wrested = obtained with effort
wrested = taken
wrest = obtain with difficult effort
wrest = take with force
wrested = taken (with effort)
wrest = obtain with difficult effort
wrested = taken with difficult effort
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