Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To draw out with or as with a twisting motion; detach or extract by violence; hence, to extort.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To extort; to draw from or forth by violence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb rare To
pull out forcibly; toyank out.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From out- + wrest.
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