OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 13797

wrest

/ɹɛst/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
retorcer
To pull or twist violently.
arrancar
To obtain by pulling or violent force.
Does the devil strive to keep Christ out of men's hearts, and to preserve his own influence over them, by the weapon of ignorance? Christ wrests it from him by letting in a stream…
He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.