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Definitions of wrest
v. t. - 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
v. t. - To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort. ²
v. t. - To tune with a wrest, or key. ²
n. - The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion. ²
n. - Active or moving power. ²
n. - A key to tune a stringed instrument of music. ²
n. - A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined. ²

The word "wrest" uses 5 letters: E R S T W.

Direct anagrams of wrest:
  strew   trews

Words formed by adding one letter before or after wrest (in bold), or to erstw in any order:
a -   rawest   tawers   waster   waters   e -   rewets   wester   i -   twiers   wriest   writes   n -   strewn   o -   towers   worset   p -   twerps   s -   strews   wrests   y -   twyers   wryest  

Shorter words found within wrest:
er   ers   erst   es   et   re   res   rest   ret   rets   ser   set   sew   stew   tew   tews   we   wert   west   wet   wets  

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