1) to twist, turn awry
2) to torture, put to the rack
3) metaphorically to pervert, of one who wrests or tortures language in a false sense
Part of Speech: verb
G4761
From a derivative of G4762; to wrench, that is, (specifically) to torture (by the rack), but only figuratively to pervert: - wrest.
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These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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