Wrest Synonyms

rĕst
To alter the position of by a sharp, forcible twisting or turning movement
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wrench
  2. wring
To obtain by coercion or intimidation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. exact
  2. extort
  3. squeeze
  4. wrench
  5. wring
  6. distort
  7. extract
  8. falsify
  9. force
  10. garble
  11. misconstrue
  12. pervert
  13. rend
  14. seize
  15. snatch
  16. shake down
  17. take
  18. usurp
  19. wrestle
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To give an inaccurate view of by representing falsely or misleadingly
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. belie
  2. color
  3. distort
  4. falsify
  5. load
  6. misrepresent
  7. misstate
  8. pervert
  9. twist
  10. warp
  11. wrench

Words Related to Wrest

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Wrest Sentence Examples

  • Happily for the kingdom whose king was a child and a leper, the attention of Saladin was distracted for several years by an attempt to wrest from the sons of Nureddin the inheritance of their father - an attempt partially successful in 1174, but only finally realized in 1183.

  • There he continued to wrest from the Greeks the lands which their feeble arms were no longer able to defend.

  • The momentum had now shifted, and try as she might, Grinham could not wrest it back.

  • The Grand Alliance became, as William would have wished, a league to wrest the whole of the Spanish dominions from Queen Philip, in favor of the Austrian archduke Charles.

  • When his son Louis wished to wrest the English crown from John, now crushed by his barons, Philip intervened without seeming to do so, first with the barons, then with Innocent III., supporting and disowning his son by turns; until the latter, held in.

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