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Definition of 'wrench'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) wrench
to twist suddenly and forcibly; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist.

2.  wrench
to overstrain or injure (the ankle, knee, etc.) by a sudden, violent twist.

3.  wrench
to affect distressingly as if by a wrench.

4.  wrench
to wrest, as from the right use or meaning; distort.

5. (v.i.) wrench
to give a wrench or twist at something.

6.  wrench
to twist, turn, or move suddenly aside.

7. (n.) wrench
a wrenching movement; a sudden, violent twist.

8.  wrench
a sharp, distressing strain, as to the feelings.

9.  wrench
a twisting or distortion, as of meaning.

10.  wrench
a tool for gripping and turning or twisting the head of a bolt, a nut, a pipe, or the like, commonly consisting of a bar of metal with fixed or adjustable jaws.

Etymology: (bef. 1050; (v.) ME; OE wrencan to twist)

Definition of 'wrench'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) wrench, twist, pull
a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
"the wrench to his knee occurred as he fell"; "he was sidelined with a hamstring pull"

2. (noun) twist, wrench
a jerky pulling movement

3. (verb) wrench, spanner
a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt

4. (verb) wrench, 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"

5. (verb) wrench
make a sudden twisting motion

6. (verb) wring, wrench
twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
"Wring one's hand"

7. (verb) twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, rick
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"

Definition of 'wrench'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) wrench
a tool for loosening and tightening bolts, nuts, etc.

Definition of 'wrench'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) wrench
to pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence

2. (noun) wrench
to strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert

3. (verb) wrench
trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem

4. (verb) wrench
a violent twist, or a pull with twisting

5. (verb) wrench
a sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint

6. (verb) wrench
means; contrivance

7. (verb) wrench
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

8. (verb) wrench
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

Translation of 'wrench'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to pull with a violent movement He wrenched the gun out of my hand.
Afrikaans: uitruk	Arabic: يَنْزَع، يَنْتَزِع	Bulgarian: дръпвам силно
Brazilian: arrancar	Czech: vytrhnout	German: entwinden
Danish: vriste; rive	Greek: αρπάζω, τραβώ και παίρνω	Spanish: arrancar
Estonian: kiskuma	Farsi: باشدت کشیدن؛ با شدت پیجان	Finnish: kiskaista
French: arracher	Hebrew: לַעֲקוֹר	Hindi: झटके से निकालना
Croatian: trgnuti, istrgnuti	Hungarian: kiránt	Indonesian: merenggutkan
Icelandic: kippa, rykkja	Italian: strappare	Japanese: もぎ取る
Korean: 잡아채다	Lithuanian: ištraukti, išplėšti	Latvian: izraut; izgriezt (ar spēk
Malay: merenggut; merentap (tari	Dutch: wringen	Norwegian: rive, rykke
Polish: wyrwać, wyszarpnąć	Persian: باشدت کشیدن؛ با شدت پیجان	Pashto: ايستل، خيژول، كښل (له بند
Portuguese: arrancar	Romanian: a smulge	Russian: вырывать
Slovak: (vy)trhnúť	Slovenian: iztrgati	Serbian: istrgnuti
Swedish: rycka, slita	Thai: ดึงและบิดอย่างแรง	Turkish: şiddetle asılmak, sertçe
Taiwanese: 猛力扭擰，奪取	Ukrainian: виривати	Urdu: زور سے جھٹکا دینا
Vietnamese: giật mạnh	Chinese: 猛扭（扳、拧）
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