wresting
present participle ofwrest
wrest
verb[T+ adv/prep]
uk/rest/us/rest/formal
to get something witheffortordifficulty:
Theshareholdersareplanningto wrestcontrolof thecompany(away)fromthecurrentdirectors.
toviolentlypullsomething away from someone:
He wrested theletterfrom mygrasp.
Getting, receiving and accepting
- acquire
- acquisition
- awardee
- carve
- carvesomethingout (foryourself)
- draw
- earn
- get out ofsomething
- get/lay/putyourhands onsomeoneidiom
- glom ontosomething/someone
- go tosomeone
- honoree
- score
- screwsomethingout ofsomeone
- secure
- seize
- seize on/uponsomething
- snapsomethingup
- snatch
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Pulling
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
His domination over the folk-arts had moreover been consolidated bywrestingcontrol of the folk-dance movement as well.
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The instrument acts like a generic vocal mechanism trying out gradually more complex exercises,wrestingorganized sound out of a bare and lifeless resonance.
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Correspondingly, outgoing parties created political and patronage opportunities in decentralised offices, but did not succeed inwrestingpower over political and fiscal decisionmaking from their erstwhile allies in the state.
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The new operators have not proved very successful inwrestingroutes away from the original operator.
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There is bound to be great delay inwrestingland from its owners by means of compulsory purchase orders.
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That was the coal face—a typical situation where, hundreds of feet below the surface, lonely miners worked atwrestingthe coal from the mine.
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Thewrestingof coal from the bowels of the earth was a gross interference with nature, yet it led to great benefits for mankind.
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The latter see the proletariat as the chief agents of change and the chief beneficiaries of change—indeed, the chief instruments forwrestingpower from the owners of property.
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The committee concluded that, at its worst, labour-only sub-contracting produced faulty work by irresponsible men concerned only withwrestingthe greatest possible gain from the industry.
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If we were to begin to do the necessary work now, at speed, we should stand a chance ofwrestinghuman understanding and development from the black jaws of habit.
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The skill and courage they have shown in tackling the immense problems inwrestingoil and gas from one of the most hostile territories in the world demand universal praise.
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By the 1990s women proved eager to enter formerly all-mail sports such as ice hockey, rugby, andwresting.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The two men try to fight it out, but end up futilelywrestingon the floor.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This also refers directly to awrestingcompetition on muddy ground.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In magnetic gait, each step is initiated in awrestingmotion carrying feet upward and forward.
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