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wrest from

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wrest someone or something (away) from someone or something
to struggle to get someone or something from the grip of someone or something. The kidnappers wrested the baby from his mother and ran away with him. The policeman wrested the gun away from Lefty.
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The wards involved would be the marginal Wyken and Sherbourne wards, which the Conservatives hope to wrest from Labour, and the so-called 'Socialist Republic' ward of St Michaels, which has only Socialist councillors.
But it is the remarkable range of sounds which Hackett contrives to wrest from his instrument which will fascinate anyone who ever harboured any ambitions to master the instrument.
 
 
 
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