English-French translations for wrest

• arracher
  Nous en arrivons à de bien tristes extrémités si le Conseil pense pouvoir arracher notre consentement en nous promettant des choses qui ont déjà fait l’objet d’accords. It really is a pretty poor state of affairs if the Council thinks it can wrest something from us by making promises in respect of something that has already been agreed.
• tordre

Definition of wrest

• To pull#Verb|pull or twist#Verb|twist violently
• To seize
• To distort, to pervert#Verb|pervert, to twist
• To tune#Verb|tune with a wrest, or key#Noun|key
• The act of wresting#Noun|wresting; a wrench#Noun|wrench or twist#Noun|twist; distortion
• A key#Noun|key to tune#Verb|tune a stringed instrument
• Active or motive#Adjective|motive power#Noun|power
• ; a saw set
• A partition#Noun|partition in a water wheel by which the form of the bucket#Noun|buckets is determined
• A metal piece of some plough#Noun|ploughs attached under the mouldboard for clear#Verb|clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself

Examples

• He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel

Related words

• wrestling
• wrestle
• wrestler
• arm-wrestling
• arm-wrestle
• arm-wrestler
• mudwrestler
• wrest block
• wrestling#Английский|wrestling