wrest

About 0.56 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To pull or twist violently.
2. verb To obtain by pulling or violent force.

   He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.

3. verb To seize.
4. verb To distort, to pervert, to twist.
5. verb To tune with a wrest, or key.
6. noun The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
7. noun A key to tune a stringed instrument.
8. noun Active or motive power.

Similar words

pull away force away pluck snatch tear rend seize uproot plunder extricate

Often followed by

the from control it a power them his their this

Word family

wrested wresting wrests