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say it: rest
wrest is a verb meaning "obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically". It is pronounced /ˈɹɛst/ — rest. It carries one recorded sense.
obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically
“wrest the knife from his hands”
“wrest a meaning from the old text”
“wrest power from the old government”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wrest come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.