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1.                 From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   wrest
       v 1: 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"