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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wrench  \Wrench\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Wrenched};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Wrenching}.]  [OE.  wrenchen,  AS  wrencan  to  deceive, 
  properly,  to  twist,  from  wrenc  guile,  deceit,  a  twisting. 
  ????.  See  {Wrench},  n.] 
  1.  To  pull  with  a  twist;  to  wrest,  twist,  or  force  by 
  violence. 
 
  Wrench  his  sword  from  him  --Shak. 
 
  Forthwith  this  frame  of  mine  was  wrenched  With  a 
  woeful  agony.  --Coleridge. 
 
  2.  To  strain;  to  sprain;  hence  to  distort;  to  pervert. 
 
  You  wrenched  your  foot  against  a  stone.  --Swift. 




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