1. wrench(n = noun.state) pull, twist - a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments; "the wrench to his knee occurred as he fell"; "he was sidelined with a hamstring pull"
is a kind of harm, hurt, injury, trauma
has particulars: sprain
Derived form verb wrench4
2. wrench(n = noun.event) twist - a jerky pulling movement;
is a kind of motion, movement
Derived form verb wrench2
3. wrench(n = noun.artifact) spanner - a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt;
is a kind of hand tool
has parts: jaw
has particulars: adjustable spanner, adjustable wrench, allen wrench, alligator wrench, box end wrench, box wrench, brace wrench, bulldog wrench, carriage wrench, dog wrench, hook spanner, hook wrench, lug wrench, open-end wrench, tappet wrench, pin wrench, screw key, socket wrench, sparkplug wrench, tap wrench, torque wrench
Derived form verb wrench1
1. wrench(v = verb.contact) twist - twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates; "wrench a window off its hinges"; "wrench oneself free from somebody's grip"; "a deep sigh was wrenched from his chest"
is one way to pull
Derived form noun wrench3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP
2. wrench(v = verb.motion) - make a sudden twisting motion;
is one way to squirm, twist, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe
Derived form noun wrench2
Sample sentences:
Something ----s; Somebody ----s
3. wrench(v = verb.contact) wring - twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand"
is one way to distort, twine, twist
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP
4. wrench(v = verb.body) rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrick - twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days"
is one way to injure, wound
Derived form noun wrench1
Sample sentences:
Did he wrench his foot?
1. Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem. [1913 Webster]
"His wily wrenches thou ne mayst not flee." [1913 Webster]
2. A violent twist, or a pull with twisting. [1913 Webster]
"He wringeth them such a wrench." [1913 Webster]
"The injurious effect upon biographic literature of all such wrenches to the truth, is diffused everywhere." [1913 Webster]
3. A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint. [1913 Webster]
4. Means; contrivance. Bacon. [1913 Webster]
5. An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes. [1913 Webster]
6. The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench. [1913 Webster]
1. To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence. [1913 Webster]
"Wrench his sword from him." [1913 Webster]
"Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched
With a woeful agony." [1913 Webster]
2. To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert. [1913 Webster]
"You wrenched your foot against a stone." [1913 Webster]
wrench, n. & v.
--n.
1 a violent twist or oblique pull or act of tearing off.
2 an adjustable tool like a spanner for gripping and turning nuts etc.
3 an instance of painful uprooting or parting (leaving home was a great wrench).
4 Physics a combination of a couple with the force along its axis.
--v.tr.
1 twist or pull violently round or sideways.
2 (often foll. by off, away, etc.) pull off with a wrench.
3 distort (facts) to suit a theory etc.
Etymology:
(earlier as verb:) OE wrencan twist
VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.
N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.
VB draw, pull, haul, lug, rake, drag, tug, tow, trail, train, take in tow, wrench, jerk, twitch, touse, yank.
N extraction, extracting, removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution, evulsion, avulsion, wrench, expression, squeezing, extirpation, extermination, ejection, export, extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers, extracted.
VB extract, draw, take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out, wring from, wrench, extort, root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out, eradicate, pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots, averruncate, unroot, uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge, remove, educe, elicit, evolve, extricate, eliminate, eviscerate, express, squeeze out, press out.
N circuition, circulation, turn, curvet, excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation, northwest passage, circuit, turning, wrench, evolution, coil, corkscrew, turning, circuitous, circumforaneous, circumfluent, round about.
adjustable wrench, allen wrench, alligator wrench, box end wrench, box wrench, brace wrench, bulldog wrench, carriage wrench, chain wrench, crescent wrench, dog wrench, hook wrench, lug wrench, monkey wrench, open-end wrench, pin wrench, pipe wrench, s wrench, screw wrench, socket wrench, sparkplug wrench, stillson wrench, tap wrench, tappet wrench, torque wrench, tube wrench