🤼wrest

Meaning

to forcibly pull something from a person's grasp; to seize with effort or struggle

Example Sentences

The police had to wrest the weapon from the suspect's hand.

Example Expressions

wrest control

Synonyms

seize, grab, snatch, extract, yank

Antonyms

release, surrender, yield

Collocations

wrest control, wrest power, wrest the title, wrest freedom