wrest Copy link Outline 1. extorqueo, rsi, tum, 22. torqueo (fig.)3. dētorqueo • wrest: 1. extorqueo, rsi, tum, 2: the dagger was w.'d from your hands, tibi sica de manibus extorta est, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 16: to w. a sentence from the judges by force of language, ext. sententias de manibus judicum vi quadam orationis, id. Or. 2, 18, 74: from whom my pleasure is thus w.'d, cui sic extorta voluptas, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 139. 2. torqueo (fig.): to w. everything for the advantage of his own cause, omnia torquere ad suae causae commodum, Cic. Inv. 2, 14, 46. 3. dētorqueo: to produce suspicion and hatred by slandering and w.ing the meaning of everything, calumniando omnia detorquendoque suspecta et invisa efficere, Liv. 42, 42; to w. a word for the worse, detorquere verbum in pejus, Sen. Phr.: to w. the sense, male, perverse interpretari, Cic.
WREST Copy link • WRESTPROP., (vi) extorquere aliquid alicui (not ab aliquo, which is correct only of extorting money, corn, etc.): exprimere alicui aliquid: eripere alicui aliquid: per vim auferre alicui aliquid. To wrest anything out of anybody’s hands, extorquere aliquid de or ex manibus alicujus (but not de or ex aliquo); eripere de or e manibus alicujus. Figuratively. To wrest the sense of anything, aliquid perverse interpretari: to wrest the meaning of a word, verbum in pejus detorquere.