transcription, транскрипция: [ rest ]
( wrests, wresting, wrested)
1.
If you wrest something from someone else, you take it from them, especially when this is difficult or illegal. ( JOURNALISM or LITERARY )
For the past year he has been trying to wrest control from the central government...
The men had returned to wrest back power.
= seize
VERB : V n from n , V n with away/back
2.
If you wrest something from someone who is holding it, you take it from them by pulling or twisting it violently. ( LITERARY )
He wrested the suitcase from the chauffeur...
He was attacked by a security man who tried to wrest away a gas cartridge.
VERB : V n from n , V n with away