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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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It is very rare that the defending champions play the team they wrested the trophy from in a World Cup finals.
He wrested his right hand from my grasp to wipe them roughly away from the side of his nose.
As central authority began to crumble, they rose in revolt across France and wrested self-government for their communities.
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.
Once mining leases for these areas were wrested, steel ministry had plans of disinvesting in these units.
Tito's forces wrested large sections of the country from German control, ultimately winning the support of communists and non-communists, including the Allies.

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