Wrest vs Wrestle - What's the difference?
wrest | wrestle |
To pull or twist violently.
To obtain by pulling or violent force.
* Milton
(figuratively) To seize.
* Macaulay
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 12
(figuratively) To twist, pervert, distort.
* Bible, Exodus xxiii. 6
* South
* 1597 , Shakespeare,
To tune with a wrest, or key.
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
(obsolete) Active or motive power.
(music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
* Sir Walter Scott
A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise defeat him, depending on the specific rules of the contest
To struggle or strive
To take part in a wrestling match with someone
To move or lift something with difficulty
To throw a calf etc in order to brand it
To fight
As verbs the difference between wrest and wrestle
is that wrest is to pull or twist violently while wrestle is to contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise defeat him, depending on the specific rules of the contest.As nouns the difference between wrest and wrestle
is that wrest is the act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion while wrestle is a wrestling bout.wrest
English
Verb
(en verb)- He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.
- Did not she / Of Timna first betray me, and reveal / The secret wrested from me
- They instantly wrested the government out of the hands of Hastings.
- There was one of the tribe of Tarzan who questioned his authority, and that was Terkoz, the son of Tublat, but he so feared the keen knife and the deadly arrows of his new lord that he confined the manifestation of his objections to petty disobediences and irritating mannerisms; Tarzan knew, however, that he but waited his opportunity to wrest the kingship from him by some sudden stroke of treachery, and so he was ever on his guard against surprise.
- Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor.
- their arts of wresting , corrupting, and false interpreting the holy text
- And, I beseech you,
- Wrest once the law to your authority;
- To do a great right do a little wrong,
- And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Noun
(en noun)- (Hooker)
- (Spenser)
- The minstrel wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest , or key, with which he tuned his harp.