ALL meanings of wrench
wrench
W w - noun wrench A sudden violent twist or pull. 1
- verb with object wrench to twist suddenly and forcibly; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist: He wrenched the prisoner's wrist. 1
- verb with object wrench to overstrain or injure (the ankle, knee, etc.) by a sudden, violent twist: When she fell, she wrenched her ankle. 1
- verb with object wrench to affect distressingly as if by a wrench. 1
- verb with object wrench to wrest, as from the right use or meaning: to wrench the facts out of context. 1
- verb without object wrench to twist, turn, or move suddenly aside: He wrenched away. 1
- verb without object wrench to give a wrench or twist at something. 1
- noun wrench a wrenching movement; a sudden, violent twist: With a quick wrench, she freed herself. 1
- noun wrench a painful, straining twist, as of the ankle or wrist. 1
- noun wrench a sharp, distressing strain, as to the feelings. 1
- noun wrench a twisting or distortion, as of meaning. 1
- noun 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. 1
- noun wrench tool 1
- noun wrench emotional pang 1
- noun wrench violent pull 1
- transitive verb wrench twist 1
- transitive verb wrench pull violently 1
- noun wrench (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A trick or artifice. 0
- noun wrench (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Deceit; guile; treachery. 0
- noun wrench A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug. 0
- noun wrench An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain. 0
- noun wrench (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A turn at an acute angle. 0
- noun wrench (archaic) A winch or windlass. 0
- noun wrench (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A screw. 0
- noun wrench A distorting change from the original meaning. 0
- noun wrench (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner. 0
- noun wrench A violent emotional change caused by separation. 0
- noun wrench (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body. 0
- noun wrench (Obsolete (No longer in use)) means; contrivance. 0
- verb wrench (Intransitive Verb) OBS To violently move in a turn or writhe. 0
- verb wrench (Transitive Verb) To pull or twist violently. 0
- verb wrench (Transitive Verb) OBS To turn aside or deflect. 0
- verb wrench (Transitive Verb) OBS To slander. 0
- verb wrench (Transitive Verb) OBS To tighten with or as if with a winch. 0
- verb wrench (Transitive Verb) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting. 0
- verb wrench (Transitive Verb) To distort from the original meaning. 0
- verb wrench (Transitive Verb) OBS To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion. 0
- verb wrench (Intransitive Verb) (fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away. 0
- verb wrench (Transitive Verb) To rack with pain. 0
- verb wrench (Transitive Verb) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist. 0
- verb wrench (Transitive Verb) To use the tool known as a wrench. 0
- verb wrench If you wrench something that is fixed in a particular position, you pull or twist it violently, in order to move or remove it. 0
- verb wrench If you wrench yourself free from someone who is holding you, you get away from them by suddenly twisting the part of your body that is being held. 0
- verb wrench If you wrench one of your joints, you twist it and injure it. 0
- singular noun wrench If you say that leaving someone or something is a wrench, you feel very sad about it. 0
- countable noun wrench A wrench or a monkey wrench is an adjustable metal tool used for tightening or loosening metal nuts of different sizes. 0
- verb wrench to give (something) a sudden or violent twist or pull esp so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached 0
- verb wrench to twist suddenly so as to sprain (a limb) 0
- verb wrench to give pain to 0
- verb wrench to twist from the original meaning or purpose 0