(פ') למשוך בכוח; לעקם, לפתל; לחטוף בכוח; לעוות, לסלף; להשיג במאמץ

(ש"ע) משיכה בכוח; עיקום; פיתול; חטיפה בכוח; מפתח-כוונון (לכלי-נגינה)

v. pull by force; bend; twist; snatch by force; pervert, distort; win by force

n. forceful pull; winding, bending; twist, kink; forceful capture; tuning key for musical instruments

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Verb
1. obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically; "wrest the knife from his hands"; "wrest a meaning from the old text"; "wrest power from the old government"
(hypernym) seize
(derivation) wrester

(v. t.)
To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.
  

(v. t.)
To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
  

(v. t.)
To tune with a wrest, or key.
  

(n.)
The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
  

(n.)
Active or moving power.
  

(n.)
A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
  

(n.)
A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
  

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