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wrest <a wrest; wrests> N

wrest
لَيّ
wrest
عِوَج
wrest SPORTS
مُصَارَعَة
wrest SPORTS
لَوْي

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wrest N (instruments & machines)

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wrest away VB

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He wrests the finger away and gives the man the other finger in return.
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The nabobs, in some cases, even managed to wrest control of boroughs from the nobility and the gentry.
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This helped wrest influence from the stadtholder's favourites, who dominated these committees.
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The state bureaucracy wrested control from its architect and the architect's intentions for the interiors of the building were never realised.
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After her death, the family attempted to wrest control of the estate from the school.
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The war was thus an effort to wrest these social, economic and political advantages back.
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But circumstances now allowed him to wrest free from political control.
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How these gems were wrested from the stellar dragons remains unsaid.
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The two men try to fight it out, but end up futilely wresting on the floor.
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Our first task is to wrest the sanctuary from the desert sands, documenting our findings as we go.
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