wrest sth from sb/sth

ˈwrest sth from sb/sth(formal)1to take sth such as power or control from sb/sth with great effort攫取，抢夺（权力）They attempted towrest controlof the town from government forces.他们企图从政府军手中夺取对这个城镇的控制权。2to take sth from sb that they do not want to give, suddenly or violently抢，夺（物品）wrenchHe wrested the gun from my grasp.他把枪从我手里抢走了。

• countermines
• biggest
• the book tube
• the end of one's tether
• stabilize
• fit in with
• Siegfried
• polarization ellipse
• tear-thumb
• Kashubians
• Oona
• hedge in
• screwballs
• Phil.I.
• whites-only
• centralists
• Daphne
• semiabstractions
• be out of favour with
• Heraclidan
• wobble about (或around)
• eight-rock
• sinfonia
• echidna
• helpmate,
• self-contemplation
• tachysterol
• repetitivenesses
• cumulately
• ethogram
• superjacent
• airborne profile
• die like a rat
• close-croppeds
• city house
• oil weapon
• epilepsies
• extra-illustration
• gaspeite
• pia(s)saba
• Balbo, Count Cesare
• quasiparticle
• exceptional spaces
• DTCS
• sapsucker
• bird-catcher
• moisturiser
• Judas goat
• mutual interdependent fixation
• mane
• in an interesting state
• spongeous
• chemical lasers
• neurotically
• itcher
• singgerer
• prescriptivist
• siderolites
• macilent
• thermalizations
• icy pole
• ravest
• candy floss
• otalgic
• not too / so bad
• Royal Regiment of Artillery
• boiling heat
• bacteriostatically
• skippies
• subcrops
• caravels
• woodnote
• give something up as a bad job
• double jeopardy
• variation of latitude
• polytechnical
• deceleration strip
• bankruptcy petition
• cerium
• clinical ecologist
• divers
• town and gown
• dictate to
• parbuckle
• there's something, not much, etc. to be said for sth/doing sth
• deurbanised
• dwindle
• (do sth) with grandeur
• debase
• Z chromosome
• choreologist
• wallhanging
• phyco-
• nationalities
• surcharges
• retried
• plant protease concentrate
• park avenues
• moon pillar
• leg and leg