WREST, G., to wrest, to snatch or pull, to burst, to tear.
1. To twist or extort by violence to pull or force from by violent wringing or twisting as, to wrest an instrument from anothers hands.
2. To take or force from by violence. The enemy made a great effort, and wrested the victory from our hands.
But fate has wrested the confession from me.
3. To distort to turn from truth or twist from its natural meaning by violence to pervert.
Wrest once the law to your authority.
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the poor. Exodus 23 .
Which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. 2 Peter 3 .
WREST, n.
1. Distortion violent pulling and twisting perversion.
2. Active or moving power. Not used.
3. An instrument to tune.
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