Word: wrests
Synonyms: wrests
wrench, snatch, seize, grab, pry, pluck, tug, pull, jerk, dislodge, remove, yank
Translations: wrests
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spanish
Translations:
arranca, arrebata, arrebate, le arrebata, le arranca
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german
Translations:
entreißt, ringt
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french
Translations:
arrache, arrache des, arrache la, arrache le
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italian
Translations:
strappa, strappa il
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portuguese
Translations:
arranca, a arranca, arrebata
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dutch
Translations:
ontrukt
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russian
Translations:
вырывает, исторгает, изымает
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danish
Translations:
vrister
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ukrainian
Translations:
вириває
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bulgarian
Translations:
изтръгва, изкривява, вади
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belarusian
Translations:
вырывае, зрывае, выдзірае, ратуе, вырывае яе
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romanian
Translations:
smulge
The meaning and "use of": wrests
verb
- forcibly pull (something) from a person's grasp. - Leila tried to wrest her arm from his hold
- a key for tuning a harp or piano. - With respect to the harp, he produces the sharps, flats, quarter-notes, or any intermediate variation deviating from the natural notes, by causing the wrest -pins, that if, the pins by which the strings are extended and tuned, to move partly round centres and thereby increase or decrease the tension of the strings more or less, as may be required to answer the desired change of the notes.
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