| 词汇 | wrest |
| 释义 | wrest verb[ T+ adv/prep ] uk /rest/ us /rest/ formal to get something with effort or difficulty: 辛苦谋求;费力取得 The shareholders are planning to wrest control of the company (away)from the current directors.股东们正在计划从现任董事们手中夺取公司的控制权。 to violently pull something away from someone: 夺取;攫取 He wrested the letter from my grasp.他从我手中夺走了那封信。 Getting, receiving and accepting acquirable acquire acquisition awardee carve draw earn get back get out of something get/lay/put your hands on someoneidiom glom onto something/someone go to someone score screw screw something out of someone secure seize seize on/upon something snap something up You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Pulling wrest | American Dictionarywrest verb[ T ] fmlus/rest/ to obtain something with difficulty, effort, or violence: Shareholders will try to wrest control of the company from the current management. Examples of wrestwrest First, formal politics expanded as the state assumed new f unctions and wrested control of tasks from institutions that were previously independent of the state. The instrument acts like a generic vocal mechanism trying out gradually more complex exercises, wresting organized sound out of a bare and lifeless resonance. Day after day we are being confronted with new legislation which wrests from us things which belong to us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 From our capacity in these days to create wealth surely can be wrested some standards of supplementary pensions of the aged? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They preferred a settlement necessarily unstable because it could only be wrested by force. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Once the scientists have wrested secrets from nature, the secrets cannot be returned to nature. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What has happened is that psychologists have wrested control of the purpose of education from educators. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The threat that further land may be wrested from agriculture for these purposes is bound to be discouraging. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The client's defence may well be that a false confession was wrested from him or that something was planted on him by the police. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The new operators have not proved very successful in wresting routes away from the original operator. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is bound to be great delay in wresting land from its owners by means of compulsory purchase orders. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope we have not got to the last day, and that we shall not have the text thus wrested from its context. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 British scientists have in a very short time wrested from the atom an amazing store of knowledge, and they are constantly making fresh discoveries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The history of the years since that time has been largely a story of how one material advantage after another has been wrested from us, seemingly for ever. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must not allow this lead to be wrested from us as has happened with so many other ventures—the swing wing, the hovercraft and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of wrest These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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