rough-and-tumble vs wrest

rough-and-tumble

verb
  • Engage in rough-and-tumble activity 

adj
  • active, vigorous and rough, with the possibility of harm 

  • highly competitive 

noun
  • An environment of rough activity 

  • Rough activity; fighting or brawling; a fight. 

  • A person who characteristically engages in such activity 

wrest

verb
  • To pull or twist violently. 

  • To tune with a wrest, or key. 

  • To seize. 

  • To distort, to pervert, to twist. 

  • To obtain by pulling or violent force. 

noun
  • A key to tune a stringed instrument. 

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

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

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