Take and Wrest

Take

Take verb - To reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms.

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Wrest and take are semantically related In some cases you can use "Wrest" instead a verb "Take".

Nearby Words: taking, taken, taker

Wrest verb - To draw out by force or with effort.

Usage example: the boy wrested the book out of his sister's hands

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Take and wrest are semantically related in snatch topic. Sometimes you can use "Take" instead a verb "Wrest".

Nearby Words: wrestle, wrestled, wresting

Doctor Doom shows up to take back the fake painting that Beetle and Overdrive managed to wrest away from the gang war.

Source: Comicbook / The Superior Foes of Spider-Man
Their whole elaborate scheme was not concocted to take over Dalmasca, but to wrest control of humanity's future from the Occuria, and "put the reins of history back in the hands of man."

Source: Screw Destiny
He throws his coffee at Alberto after he messes up his utterly complex order, attempts to wrest Rey Mysterio's crossing guard job away from him, and tries to take CM Punk's job serving ice cream.

Source: Web Video / WWE Slam City

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