English Dictionary

wrest

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹɛst/

動詞

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。

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

彼女は演説者の手からマイクを無理やり奪おうとした。

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.

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; …

意味（4）

(transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.

And I beſeech you / Wreſt once the Law to your authority, / To do a great right, do a little wrong, / And curbe this cruell deuill of his will.

意味（5）

(transitive, music) To tune with a wrest, or key.

The Harpe. A harpe geueth ſounde as it is ſette / The harper may wreſt it vntunablye

wrests （ present singular third-person ）

wresting （ participle present ）

wrested （ participle past ）

wrested （ past ）