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wrenching |
2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: wrenching adj : causing great physical or mental suffering; "a wrenching pain" [syn: {racking}]
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