To twist or extort by violence; to pull or force from by violent wringing or twisting; as, to wrest an instrument from anothers hands.

To take or force from by violence. The enemy made a great effort, and wrested the victory from our hands. But fate has wrested the confession from me.

To distort; to turn from truth or twist from its natural meaning by violence; to pervert. Wrest once the law to your authority. Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the poor. Exodus 23:6. Which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. 2 Peter 3:76.

Distortion; violent pulling and twisting; perversion.

Active or moving power.

An instrument to tune.