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What does wrested mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of wrest
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He wrested his right hand from my grasp to wipe them roughly away from the side of his nose.
It is very rare that the defending champions play the team they wrested the trophy from in a World Cup finals.
Hobbs told investigators that Krystal pulled the knife to defend her friend, and he wrested it away.
Tito's forces wrested large sections of the country from German control, ultimately winning the support of communists and non-communists, including the Allies.
When the power of the guilds to control the quantities of goods brought to market was wrested from them, their regulations could no longer be enforced.
Its sovereignty as a European microstate goes back to Charlemagne, who wrested this area of the Pyrenees from the Moors in the ninth century.

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