wrest

it is difficult to wrest oneself away.

to wrest the truth out of sb.

wrested the book out of his hands; wrested the islands from the settlers.

wrest a living from the barren ground

wrest from Nature her secrets

wrested power from the monarchy.

wrest the meaning from an obscure poem.

wrested the words out of context.

The usurper wrested the power from the king.

The rebels tried to wrest control of the town from government forces.

The officer managed to wrest the gun from his grasp.

Leila tried to wrest her arm from his hold.

they wanted to allow people to wrest control of their lives from impersonal bureaucracies.

you appear convinced of my guilt, and wrest every reply I have made.

One of the hostages was foolhardy enough to try to wrest the gun from the hijacker's hand.

On Fantoma, the first dropships began disgorging the mining equipment that the Zentraedi would use to wrest monopole ore from the heavy-g world.

The amphitheater was a sealed off round structure. Swordplay, wresting, gladiatoral and other contests were held there.

To wriggle is to wrest about like a worm.

They managed to wrest control of everything in the townhouse.

But the pound has rallied as British lawmakers this week wrested control over the Brexit timetable away from Johnson.

Combined French and African forces have already wrested control of the main towns in northern Mali from rebel forces.

Local revolutionaries sought to wrest control of Madagascar from France's lingering colonial rule.

What! hope to wrest this old man's living power from his own living hands?

They were trying to wrest control of the town from an army dominated by former Seleka rebels.

Azerbaijan is trying to wrest back territory seized from it by neighbouring Armenia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The outlook for the euro-area economy is deteriorating fast, which augurs ill for attempts to wrest the finances of indebted countries under control.

His wife wrested his knife away!