0 past simple and past participle of wrest --
1 to get something with effort or difficulty: --
It does not help if large amounts of money are wrested from education — no matter how many lovely nouns such as "articulateness" are used.
Once the scientists have wrested secrets from nature, the secrets cannot be returned to nature.
They preferred a settlement necessarily unstable because it could only be wrested by force.
This is a great opportunity to harness all that has now been wrested in the name of science and is now available to us.
From our capacity in these days to create wealth surely can be wrested some standards of supplementary pensions of the aged?
It was not a concession wrested from unwilling clerics.
That privilege will only be taken from us when it is forcibly wrested.
The great transforming force in modern human history has been a voracious capitalism, which, for example, has invaded the family and wrested from it its traditional socializing functions.
