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wrest

Wrest vs False - What's the difference?

wrest | false |


As a verb wrest

is to pull or twist violently.

As a noun wrest

is the act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.

As an adjective false is

(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

Pry vs Wrest - What's the difference?

pry | wrest |


As an adverb pry

is allegedly.

As a verb wrest is

to pull or twist violently.

As a noun wrest is

the act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.

Wrest vs Give - What's the difference?

wrest | give |


As verbs the difference between wrest and give

is that wrest is to pull or twist violently while give is (may take two objects) to move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.

As nouns the difference between wrest and give

is that wrest is the act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion while give is (uncountable) the amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

Wrest vs Jerk - What's the difference?

wrest | jerk |


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between wrest and jerk

is that wrest is (obsolete) active or motive power while jerk is (obsolete) to flout with contempt.

As verbs the difference between wrest and jerk

is that wrest is to pull or twist violently while jerk is to make a sudden uncontrolled movement or jerk can be to cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

As nouns the difference between wrest and jerk

is that wrest is the act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion while jerk is a sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body or jerk can be (caribbean) a rich, spicy jamaican marinade.

Worse vs Wrest - What's the difference?

worse | wrest |


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between worse and wrest

is that worse is (obsolete) loss; disadvantage; defeat while wrest is (obsolete) active or motive power.

As verbs the difference between worse and wrest

is that worse is (obsolete|transitive) to make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit while wrest is to pull or twist violently.

As nouns the difference between worse and wrest

is that worse is (obsolete) loss; disadvantage; defeat while wrest is the act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.

As an adjective worse

is (bad).

As an adverb worse

is .

Wrest vs Pervert - What's the difference?

wrest | pervert | Related terms |

Wrest is a related term of pervert.


As verbs the difference between wrest and pervert

is that wrest is to pull or twist violently while pervert is to turn another way; to divert.

As nouns the difference between wrest and pervert

is that wrest is the act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion while pervert is (dated) one who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals.

Wrest vs Steal - What's the difference?

wrest | steal |


As verbs the difference between wrest and steal

is that wrest is to pull or twist violently while steal is (lb) to take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.

As nouns the difference between wrest and steal

is that wrest is the act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion while steal is the act of stealing.

Wrest vs Wrestling - What's the difference?

wrest | wrestling |


As verbs the difference between wrest and wrestling

is that wrest is to pull or twist violently while wrestling is .

As nouns the difference between wrest and wrestling

is that wrest is the act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion while wrestling is a sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.

Pillage vs Wrest - What's the difference?

pillage | wrest |


As verbs the difference between pillage and wrest

is that pillage is (ambitransitive) to loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war while wrest is to pull or twist violently.

As nouns the difference between pillage and wrest

is that pillage is the spoils of war while wrest is the act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.

Wrest vs Yank - What's the difference?

wrest | yank |


As nouns the difference between wrest and yank

is that wrest is the act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion while yank is (us) a yankee, a northerner: someone from the northern united states, especially from new england.

As a verb wrest

is to pull or twist violently.

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