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Definition
obtain with difficult effort or force
- "That one, brother, he bite," she said, pointing her knuckly hand at a small tree he was wresting from his garden plot.Book 1 — Genesis (44% in)
- Thanks to those remarkable men, plus others uncounted who died on the way, Angola has wrested itself free of Portugal and still owns its diamonds and oil wells.Book 5 — Exodus (96% in)
There are no more uses of "wrest" in The Poisonwood Bible.
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