wrested
past simple and past participle ofwrest
| 单词 | wrested |
| 释义 | wrested past simple and past participle ofwrest wrest verb[T+ adv/prep] uk/rest/us/rest/formal to get something witheffortordifficulty: Theshareholdersareplanningto wrestcontrolof thecompany(away)fromthecurrentdirectors. toviolentlypullsomething away from someone: He wrested theletterfrom mygrasp. Getting, receiving and accepting
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Pulling Examplesofwrestedwrested In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. At university campuses, communists stepped up their criticism of capitalist development andwrestedcontrol of student and faculty unions. From theCambridge English Corpus First, formal politics expanded as the state assumed new f unctions andwrestedcontrol of tasks from institutions that were previously independent of the state. From theCambridge English Corpus Workerswresteda lot of power from owners and won real concessions in the workplace. From theCambridge English Corpus Their prominence in working groups enabled police representatives to frustrate agreement and important concessions werewrestedfrom government. From theCambridge English Corpus In very difficult personal circumstances, disabled people havewrestedcontrol from professionals, at least in limited ways. From theCambridge English Corpus In 1912, the departmentwrestedcontrol of parcel post delivery from the nation's express companies, rendering them obsolete in the parcel market in under a decade. From theCambridge English Corpus In addition, agricultural cooperatives and ministry bureaucratswrestedcontrol over the regulation of key farm inputs such as petroleum and fertilizers away from business interests and their allies in government. From theCambridge English Corpus The great transforming force in modern human history has been a voracious capitalism, which, for example, has invaded the family andwrestedfrom it its traditional socializing functions. From theCambridge English Corpus That privilege will only be taken from us when it is forciblywrested. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It was not a concessionwrestedfrom unwilling clerics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 From our capacity in these days to create wealth surely can bewrestedsome standards of supplementary pensions of the aged? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a great opportunity to harness all that has now beenwrestedin the name of science and is now available to us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They preferred a settlement necessarily unstable because it could only bewrestedby force. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Once the scientists havewrestedsecrets from nature, the secrets cannot be returned to nature. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It does not help if large amounts of money arewrestedfrom education — no matter how many lovely nouns such as "articulateness" are used. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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