0 present participle of wrest
1 to get something with effort or difficulty:
His domination over the folk-arts had moreover been consolidated by wresting control of the folk-dance movement as well.
The instrument acts like a generic vocal mechanism trying out gradually more complex exercises, wresting organized sound out of a bare and lifeless resonance.
Correspondingly, outgoing parties created political and patronage opportunities in decentralised offices, but did not succeed in wresting power over political and fiscal decisionmaking from their erstwhile allies in the state.
The new operators have not proved very successful in wresting routes away from the original operator.
There is bound to be great delay in wresting land from its owners by means of compulsory purchase orders.
That was the coal face—a typical situation where, hundreds of feet below the surface, lonely miners worked at wresting the coal from the mine.
The wresting of coal from the bowels of the earth was a gross interference with nature, yet it led to great benefits for mankind.
The latter see the proletariat as the chief agents of change and the chief beneficiaries of change—indeed, the chief instruments for wresting power from the owners of property.
