Crossword-Solution: WREST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
| Wrest | v. t. | To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort. |
| Wrest | v. t. | To tune with a wrest, or key. |
| Wrest | n. | The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion. |
| Wrest | n. | Active or moving power. |
| Wrest | n. | A key to tune a stringed instrument of music. |
| Wrest | n. | A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WREST | anagram | STREW, TREWS |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with WREST (5)
Were I on Theban soil, to prosecute The justest claim imaginable, I Would never wrest by violence my own Without sanction of your State or King; I should behave as fits an outlander Living amongst a foreign folk, but thou Shamest a city that deserves it not, Even thine own, and plentitude of years Have made of thee an old man and a fool.
The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, _i.e_., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible.
Occasionally one more ferocious than his fellows would attempt this latter alternative, but none had come yet who could wrest the palm of victory from the fierce and brutal ape.
Aching eyes scanned the horizon day and night until the weak and weary watchers would sink exhausted to the bottom of the boat, and there wrest in dream-disturbed slumber a moment’s respite from the horrors of the waking reality.
The Minstrel seemed of no vulgar rank; for, besides the splendour of his gaily braidered doublet, he wore around his neck a silver chain, by which hung the “wrest”, or key, with which he tuned his harp.
Quotes with WREST (3)
Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.
How can we expect the world to change if we are unwilling to change ourselves? We hate the haters, judge the judgers, and refuse to forgive the supposed unforgivable. We are hypocrites, most of us, comfortable condemning others for the same things we do. Like sheep we follow, like wolves we attack, like fools we listen to the loudest voices, even when they scream nothing but hate. We are lost in our desire to be like everyone else, and paralyzed in our fear to be ourselves. W…
The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many creative people--including Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beethoven, Rilke, Blake, and Van Gogh--struggled with depression, anxiety, and despair. They paid a heavy price to wrest their gifts from the clutches of non-Being. But this is what true artists do: they make their own frayed lives the cable for the surges of power gen…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 189 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).