Drest vs. Wrest — What's the Difference?

Obsolete form of dressed

Forcibly pull (something) from a person's grasp

Of Dress.

Distort the meaning or interpretation of (something) to suit one's own interests or views

A key for tuning a harp or piano.

To obtain or remove by pulling with twisting movements

To take possession of forcefully; seize or usurp

To gain or extract with persistent effort; wring

A small tuning key for the wrest pins of a stringed instrument.

(transitive) To pull or twist violently.

(transitive) To obtain by pulling or violent force.

To seize.

To distort, to pervert, to twist.

To tune with a wrest, or key.

The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.

(music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.

(obsolete) Active or motive power.

; a saw set.

A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.

A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.

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.

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.

Obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically;