wrest+from
21wrest — Synonyms and related words: anamorphism, anamorphosis, arrogate, asymmetry, avulse, badger, bend, blackmail, buckle, claim, color, confiscate, confuse, contort, contortion, crook, crookedness, crumple, cut out, demand, deracinate, detorsion,… …
22wrest — /rɛst / (say rest) verb (t) 1. to twist or turn; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist. 2. to take away by force. 3. to get by effort: to wrest a living from the soil. 4. to twist or turn from the proper course, application, use, meaning, or… …
23wrest — verb /rɛst/ a) To pull or twist violently. There was one of the tribe of Tarzan who questioned his authority, and that was Terkoz, the son of Tublat, but he so feared the keen knife and the deadly arrows of his new lord that he confined the… …
24Leibniz (from) to Kant — From Leibniz to Kant Lewis White Beck INTRODUCTION Had Kant not lived, German philosophy between the death of Leibniz in 1716 and the end of the eighteenth century would have little interest for us, and would remain largely unknown. In Germany… …
25wrest — verb (transitive always + adv/prep) formal 1 to take power or influence away from someone, especially when this is difficult 2 to pull something away from someone violently: I wrested the photograph from his grasp …
26wrest — I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English wrasten, wresten, from Old English wrǣstan; akin to Old Norse reista to bend and probably to Old English wrigian to turn more at wry Date: before 12th century 1. to pull, force, or move by violent… …
27wrest — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. turn, pull, twist; tear away, snatch, grab. See distortion, acquisition, extraction. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. twist away from, take, jerk, pull, wrestle, extract, wring, grab. III (Roget s… …
28wrest — [rɛst] verb 1》 forcibly pull from a person s grasp. ↘take (power or control) after considerable effort or resistance. 2》 archaic distort the meaning or interpretation of. noun archaic a key for tuning a harp or piano. Origin OE wrstan twist,… …
29wrest — verb he wrested the broom from Angela s grasp Syn: wrench, snatch, seize, grab, pry, pluck, tug, pull, jerk, dislodge, remove; informal yank …
30wrest — [rest] verb [T] mainly journalism to use force to get land, power, or possessions from someone …
