wrest
Present Participle
wresting
Past Tense
wrested
Past Participle
wrested
1
to forcibly pull or take something, often from someone's grasp
- He managed to wrest the gun from the attacker's hands.
- The rebels tried to wrest control of the city from government forces.
- She had to wrest the truth from his evasive answers.
- He wrested the steering wheel just in time to avoid the crash.
- The lawyer wrested a confession from the reluctant witness.