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Wrench

noun

1.

A sharp strain on muscles or ligaments. Synonyms: pull, twist. "He was sidelined with a hamstring pull"

2.

A jerky pulling movement. Synonym: twist.

3.

A hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt. Synonym: spanner.

verb

(past & past part. wrenched; pres. part. wrenching)

1.

Twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates. Synonym: twist. "Wrench oneself free from somebody's grip" , "A deep sigh was wrenched from his chest"

2.

Make a sudden twisting motion.

3.

Twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish. Synonym: wring.

4.

Twist suddenly so as to sprain. Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrick. "The wrestler twisted his shoulder" , "The hikers sprained their ankles when they fell" , "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days"

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"Wrench" Quotes from Famous Books

... very first thing that boy did when the fight was ended—being still dazed, no doubt, by the blow on his head—was to play a bit of "Rory O'More" on his mouth-organ in order to make sure that his beloved "instrumentito" had not been injured by his fall. The sound of this air gave my heart a wrench, as I thought of poor Dennis; whose gallant race with death assuredly had saved all of us from dying without a chance to strike a blow. And both of our Otomi ...

— The Aztec Treasure-House • Thomas Allibone Janvier

... general effect is of one simultaneous convulsed movement, one seething turmoil. In detail, the horror is most dramatically rendered. The malignancy of the devils, their brutal fury as they claw their prey, tear at their throats, and wrench back their heads; the utter horror and anguish of the victims, the confusion, the uproar, are given with a convincing realistic force, which makes the scene ghastly and terrible. In most representations of Hell, and especially of ...

— Luca Signorelli • Maud Cruttwell

... streyte [th]at he may not plye, but gaderyth yt by manere of a wyndlas; & he awght wrench a-side, or a litill[e] wrye, 472 hys gere stondyt[h] them in full[e] parlovs caas, hys sho / his hose / doblet, poynt & laas; & yff owght breke, sum tonges that be bade will[e] moke & say, "A knave hath ...

— Caxton's Book of Curtesye • Frederick J. Furnivall

... I should do if Mr. Coote saw me like this. (She begins to get up) And after calling me a Spartan Mother only yesterday, because I said that if any nice, steady young man came along and took my own dear little girl away from me, I should bear the terrible wrench in silence rather than cause either of them a moment's remorse. ...

— Second Plays • A. A. Milne

... out av me engine-room. I'll have no skipper buttin' in on me, tellin' me how to run me engines an' askin' me why in this an' that I don't go aisy on the coal. Faith, I've had thim do it—the wanst—an' the wanst only. Begorra, I'd have brained thim wit' a monkey wrench if they tried it ...

— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

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