Associations to the word «Wrest»

Wiktionary

WREST, verb. To pull or twist violently.
WREST, verb. To obtain by pulling or violent force.
WREST, verb. (figuratively) To seize.
WREST, verb. (figuratively) To twist, pervert, distort.
WREST, verb. To tune with a wrest, or key.
WREST, noun. The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
WREST, noun. (obsolete) Active or motive power.
WREST, noun. (music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
WREST, noun. A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
WREST BLOCK, noun. (music) a wooden block in the pianoforte, often made of several pieces, into which the wrest-pins are driven

Dictionary definition

WREST, verb. 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".

Wise words

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.