wrest

wrest

1. (kirjakielessä) riistää, kaapata

2. riuhtaista, riuhtoa

Esimerkkejä:

to invoke the 25th Amendment and 'wrest' the powers of the presidency from Mr. Trump (New York Times)

Synonyymisanakirja

wrest

kaapata, kiskaista.

Rimmaavat sanat

wrest rimmaa näiden kanssa:

bed and breakfast, poltergeist, twist, kuminauhatwist, glasnost, just, must...

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Englannin sanakirja

wrest englanniksi

1. To pull or twist violently.

2. To obtain by pulling or violent force.

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

3. Milton

Did not she / Of Timna first betray me, and reveal / The secret wrested from me(..)

4. puhekieltä To seize.

5. Macaulay

They instantly wrested the government out of the hands of Hastings.

6. 1912: (w), (w), Chapter 12

There was one of the tribe of Tarzan who questioned his authority, and that was Terkoz, the son of Tublat, but he so feared the keen knife and the deadly arrows of his new lord that he confined the manifestation of his objections to petty disobediences and irritating mannerisms; Tarzan knew, however, that he but waited his opportunity to wrest the kingship from him by some sudden stroke of treachery, and so he was ever on his guard against surprise.

7. puhekieltä To twist, pervert, distort.

8. Bible, Exodus xxiii. 6

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor.

9. South

their arts of wresting, corrupting, and false interpreting the holy text

10. 1597, Shakespeare, s:The Merchant of Venice|The Merchant of Venice

And, I beseech you,

Wrest once the law to your authority;

To do a great right do a little wrong,

And curb this cruel devil of his will.

11. To tune with a wrest, or key.

12. The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.

(rfquotek)

13. puhekieltä active Active or motive power.

14. puhekieltä A key to tune a stringed instrument.

15. Sir Walter Scott

The minstrel (..) wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest, or key, with which he tuned his harp.

16. A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.

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