1. [verb] To pull or twist violently.
2. [verb] To obtain by pulling or violent force.
3. [verb] (figuratively) To seize.
4. [verb] (figuratively) To twist, pervert, distort.
5. [verb] To tune with a wrest, or key.
6. [noun] The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
7. [noun] (obsolete) Active or motive power.
8. [noun] (music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
9. [noun] A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
10. [verb] Obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically; 'wrest the knife from his hands'; 'wrest a meaning from the old text'; 'wrest power from the old government'.
