Wrest
- 1.
- (FIGURATIVE) Wrest the truth from him គាបឬ រឹបយកដោយបង្ខំ
verb — past tense: wrested ; past participle: wrested ; present participle: wresting ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (To wrench away, to obtain by effort or with difficulty, to twist or distort, to take by force) ដក, បោច, កាច់, ពត់, អោយខូច
Example: The policeman skillfully wrested the gun from the gangster, The prince tried to wrest the kingdom from his father.wrest it away from him កន្ដ្រាក់ចេញ - 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) គាបយក, បង្ខំយក, កន្ត្រាក់
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
- 2.
- Active or moving power.
- 3.
- A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
- 4.
- A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
verb — past tense: wrested ; past participle: wrested ; present participle: wresting ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To tune with a wrest, or key.