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(transitive) To pull or twist violently. / (transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force. / (transitive, figuratively) To seize. / (transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.

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wrest

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wrest

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹɛst/

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他動詞比喩的用法

(transitive) To pull or twist violently. / (transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force. / (transitive, figuratively) To seize. / (transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.

日本語の意味

激しく引っ張ったりねじったりすること。 / 力ずくで奪い取ること。 / （比喩的に）奪取する、捕らえること。 / （比喩的に）歪める、ねじ曲げること。

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She tried to wrest the microphone from the speaker's hands.

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彼女は演説者の手からマイクを無理やり奪おうとした。

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意味（1）

(transitive) To pull or twist violently.

意味（2）

(transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force.

He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.

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意味（3）

(transitive, figuratively) To seize.

[S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; …

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