Wrest is valid Scrabble Word

Is wrest a scrabble word?
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5 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for WREST in dictionary:

VERB:

to take away by force, also WRAST
take (something, especially power or control) after considerable effort or difficulty
twist violently
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.
To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
To tune with a wrest, or key.
obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically
forcibly pull (something) from a person's grasp
distort the meaning or interpretation of (something) to suit one's own interests or views

NOUN:

a key for tuning a harp or piano.

The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
Active or moving power.
A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
act or an instance of wresting

Words related to WREST

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How to use WREST in a sentence

If the Mussalmans were strong, they would not hate the English but would fight and wrest from them the dearest possessions of Islam.
Pulses and breathing quickened, intent eyes probed the shadows as if she thought to wrest from them a clue to the mystery of her status in the household of Victor Vassilyevski.
In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.
His wife could now have easily put a period to his existence, but she still hoped to wrest the secret from him.
He endeavoured to wrest it from me, when, luckily, I saw in the distance two English soldiers, who hastened up in answer to my cries, and, on seeing this, the fellow ran off.
The prince of the apostles did wrest that city from idolatry, and convert it to the faith of Christ.
It is with the sword that we must wrest from his grasp the liberties of Europe, which he aims at stifling, or we must submit forever to the yoke of servitude.
The man made a violent jerk to wrest the weapon from him, and still clinging fast hold of it he was pulled on board.
We may well be grateful and glad for our defeat of the 21st of July, if we wrest from it the secrets of our weakness, and are thrown back by it to the true sources of strength.
Were he my enemy, to wrest some spoil from his unwilling hands would be an exquisite pleasure, to my thinking.

It is he who stood forth against the rebellious monsters of darkness, who would wrest the dominion of the world from the gods who held their conclave on the mountain.
He was obviously a son of the soil, and he would wrest his living therefrom, but he would do it with brain as well as hands.
He looked for the easy victory that science, nine times out of ten, can wrest from unskilled brute force.
He made a dash at the fragment of bacon, and seemed determined to wrest it from my grasp.
There was not a moment for delay, and the youth sprung forward in time to seize and wrest the weapon from his grasp.
To cause a locked door to appear bolted in addition, it would only be necessary for the person on the inside of the door to wrest the staple containing the bolt from the woodwork.
Shortly after his accession, the Romans had taken advantage of his minority to wrest from him the province of Phrygia.
Here the armies of Germany and the Allies had clashed more than once, and attempt after attempt had been made to wrest it from German hands.
Down near the bank of the stream, Halstead had overtaken him and had tried to wrest the gun from him.
In a few brief months Bill would wrest a sack of gold from the treasure house of the North, and they would journey home by easy stages.
Only the swift-flowing waters met his gaze, and seemed to mock at his efforts to wrest their secret.
Also, it came into the possession of Hawis Gadern, a great beauty and heiress, whose uncles tried to wrest it from her, but were defeated and imprisoned in the castle.
Annie-Many-Ponies got up silently and went and stood beside him, looking down at him as though she meant to wrest the truth from his brain.
A request for whiskey addressed to a car containing a dozen men accustomed to wrest metals from the earth was not in vain.
And whether ye wrest your evidence, or decline giving it, God is well acquainted with that which ye do.
When we read of lips longed for pressed By such a lover with a kiss, This one whom naught from me shall wrest, All trembling kissed my mouth.
Many men must determine not only to assist to wrest the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels, but to give their lives, so long as they might last, to retaining it.
Then remember that Casey had spent months on end alone in the wilderness, working like a lashed slave from sunrise to dark, trying to wrest a fortune from a certain mountain side.
O attendants, where, I pray, is the all-wretched Hecuba, who surpasses the whole race of man and woman kind in calamities? no one shall wrest from her the crown.
But a week passed after these ceremonies ere the prince Youri, one of the brothers of Vassili, was arrested, charged with conspiracy to wrest the crown from his young nephew.

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