wrest
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To pull or twist violently.
- 2.
(transitive)To obtain by pulling or violent force.
He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.
- 3.
(figuratively, transitive)To seize.
- 4.
(figuratively, transitive)To distort, to pervert, to twist.
- 5.
(transitive)(transitive, music) To tune with a wrest, or key.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
- 2.
(music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
- 3.
(obsolete)Active or motive power.
- 4.
(abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis, obsolete, rare)Ellipsis of saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set.
- 5.
A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
- 6.
(dated, dialectal)(agriculture, dated, dialectal) A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.
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Nguồn gốc từ
From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wrǣstan (to twist forcibly, wrench), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijaną, (compare, *wrīþaną (to weave, twist), reista), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-, *wreyḱ- (to bend, twist), *wreyt- (to bend). See also writhe, wry.