Crossword-Solution: WRESTED
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Wrested | imp. & p. p. | of Wrest |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| WRESTED | anagram | STREWED |
We have 13 clues for the answer “WRESTED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Forced away (from) | 1 answer |
| Gained with force | 1 answer |
| Took away by force | 1 answer |
| Tore away (from) | 1 answer |
| Twisted strongly | 1 answer |
| Wrung | 1 answer |
| Took forcibly | 2 answers |
| Twisted with force | 2 answers |
| Extorted | 3 answers |
| Took by force | 4 answers |
| Snatched | 7 answers |
| usurped | 21 answers |
| Taken | 34 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WRESTED (5)
Why is life giv’n To be thus wrested from us? rather why Obtruded on us thus? who if we knew What we receive, would either not accept Life offer’d, or soon beg to lay it down, Glad to be so dismist in peace.
The brave boy’s act of chivalrous self-sacrifice filled me with pride, nor did I care that it had wrested from us our last frail chance for escape.
The reader may deem it singular that the head carpenter of the new edifice was no other than the son of the very man from whose dead gripe the property of the soil had been wrested.
Templer wrested his arm free from Alex's weakening clutch and tore off the ring, tossing it away from the Tower.
Now he knew that something more than revenge had prompted Rokoff to pitch him overboard—the Russian had managed to obtain possession of the papers Tarzan had wrested from him at Bou Saada.
Quotes with WRESTED (3)
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation — enlightened as it is — if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggl…
But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1986–2019).