Crossword clues for wresting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrest \Wrest\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrested; p. pr. & vb. n. Wresting.] [OE. wresten, AS. wr?stan; akin to wr?? a twisted band, and wr[=i]?n to twist. See Writhe.]
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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. ``The secret wrested from me.''
--Milton.Our country's cause, That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand.
--Addison.They instantly wrested the government out of the hands of Hastings.
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To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
Wrest once the law to your authority.
--Shak.Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor.
--Ex. xxiii. 6.Their arts of wresting, corrupting, and false interpreting the holy text.
--South. To tune with a wrest, or key. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of wrest English)
Usage examples of "wresting".
The scrawny waterman looked in dismay at the bank of justices, appealing silently this terrible verdict: they were wresting from him land which he cherished, which his ancestors had acquired from Indians and protected with their lives against wolves and mosquitoes and tax collectors and Steeds who had wanted to plant it in tobacco.
Indeed, the quartet of distant hjjks seemed to be crouching over the body of the fallen one now, methodically pulling it apart, wresting its limbs from it and splitting them open to get at whatever meat they might contain.
This they think to be not only just when one neighbour makes an inroad on another by public order, and carries away the spoils, but when the merchants of one country are oppressed in another, either under pretence of some unjust laws, or by the perverse wresting of good ones.