Wrest: alternatives and connections

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, ac…

To pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together.

To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.

To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest.

A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face.

To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.

To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.

The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or…

To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity;…

To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse i…

To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, throu…

A pulling with force; a violent pull.

A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.

To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.

To extort; to draw from or forth by violence.

Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to p…

To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.