Ask for the moon and I shall wrest it from the heavens.
Source: tatoeba (3052418)
Wrest
//ɹɛst//
Synonyms for "wrest" (124 found)
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16 entriesTranslations
31 translations across 19 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- اِنْتَزَعَ verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
Bulgarian
2 entries- извивам verb (to pull or twist violently)
- изтръгвам verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
Cebuano
1 entries- ilog verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
Czech
2 entries- vykroutit verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
- vyrvat verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
Dutch
4 entries- losrukken verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
- wegrukken verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
- wringen verb (to pull or twist violently)
- wringen verb (to pull or twist violently)
Finnish
1 entries- riistää verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
French
1 entries- arracher verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
Galician
1 entries- arrancar verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
German
1 entries- entreißen verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
Ido
2 entries- arachar verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
- extorsar verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
Italian
3 entries- carpire verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
- estorcere verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
- spillare verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
Māori
1 entries- whakariro verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
Norwegian
1 entries- fravriste verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
Occitan
2 entries- arrancar verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
- arrapar verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
Polish
2 entries- wyrwać verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
- wyrywać verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
Portuguese
1 entries- arrancar verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
Russian
2 entries- вы́рвать verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
- вырыва́ть verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
Spanish
2 entries- arrancar verb (to obtain by pulling or violent force)
- retorcer verb (to pull or twist violently)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- koorrbak verb (to pull or twist violently)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
One of the kids tried to wrest his scooter out of the officer's hands.
Source: tatoeba (10658387)
He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.
Source: wiktionary
[D]id not ſhe / Of Timna [Delilah] firſt betray me, and reveal / The ſecret wreſted from me in her highth / Of Nuptial Love proteſt, carrying it ſtrait / To them who had corrupted her, my Spies, / And Rivals?
Source: wiktionary
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