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单词 wrest
释义
wrest
verb[T+ adv/prep]
uk
/rest/us
/rest/
formal
to get something witheffortordifficulty:
辛苦谋求；费力取得
Theshareholdersareplanningto wrestcontrolof thecompany(away)fromthecurrentdirectors.股东们正在计划从现任董事们手中夺取公司的控制权。
toviolentlypullsomething away from someone:
夺取；攫取
He wrested theletterfrom mygrasp.他从我手中夺走了那封信。
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Getting, receiving and accepting
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  • acquisition
  • awardee
  • carve
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  • draw
  • earn
  • fill
  • get out ofsomething
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  • glom ontosomething/someone
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  • score
  • screwsomethingout ofsomeone
  • secure
  • seize
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  • snapsomethingup
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(Definition ofwrestfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

wrest| American Dictionary

wrest
verb[T]
fml
us
/rest/
toobtainsomething withdifficulty,effort, orviolence:
Shareholders willtryto wrestcontrolof thecompanyfrom thecurrentmanagement.
(Definition ofwrestfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwrest

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First, formal politics expanded as the state assumed new f unctions and wrested control of tasks from institutions that were previously independent of the state.
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The instrument acts like a generic vocal mechanism trying out gradually more complex exercises, wresting organized sound out of a bare and lifeless resonance.
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Day after day we are being confronted with new legislation which wrests from us things which belong to us.
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From our capacity in these days to create wealth surely can be wrested some standards of supplementary pensions of the aged?
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They preferred a settlement necessarily unstable because it could only be wrested by force.
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Once the scientists have wrested secrets from nature, the secrets cannot be returned to nature.
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What has happened is that psychologists have wrested control of the purpose of education from educators.
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The threat that further land may be wrested from agriculture for these purposes is bound to be discouraging.
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The client's defence may well be that a false confession was wrested from him or that something was planted on him by the police.
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The new operators have not proved very successful in wresting routes away from the original operator.
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There is bound to be great delay in wresting land from its owners by means of compulsory purchase orders.
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I hope we have not got to the last day, and that we shall not have the text thus wrested from its context.
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British scientists have in a very short time wrested from the atom an amazing store of knowledge, and they are constantly making fresh discoveries.
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The history of the years since that time has been largely a story of how one material advantage after another has been wrested from us, seemingly for ever.
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We must not allow this lead to be wrested from us as has happened with so many other ventures—the swing wing, the hovercraft and so on.
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