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
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.

  • Not for 20 years after his death did the Eastern empire make any attempt to gain Cilicia or wrest homage from Antioch.

  • The military skill of Gylippus enabled the Syracusan militia to meet the Athenian troops on equal terms, to wrest from them their fortified position on Plemmyrium, which Nicias had occupied as a naval station shortly after Gylippus's arrival, and thus to drive them to keep their ships on the low beach between their double walls, to take Labdalum, an Athenian fort on the northern edge of Epipolae, and make a third counter-work right along Epipolae in a westerly direction, to the north of the circular fort.

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