To assume control of something, especially by force; to usurp.
To become more successful (than someone or something else).
To appropriate something without permission.
To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
To buy out the ownership of a business.
To relieve someone temporarily.
To annex a territory by conquest or invasion.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
To obtain by pulling or violent force.
To tune with a wrest, or key.
To seize.
To distort, to pervert, to twist.
To pull or twist violently.
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.