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Meaning Of Wrest
v. t.
To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.
v. t.
To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
v. t.
To tune with a wrest, or key.
n.
The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
n.
Active or moving power.
n.
A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
n.
A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
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