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- English Word Wrench Definition Means; contrivance.
- English Word Wrench Definition 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.
- English Word Wrench Definition 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.
- English Word Wrench Definition To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.
- English Word Wrench Definition To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.
- English Word Wrenched Definition of Wrench
- English Word Wrenching Definition of Wrench
- English Word Wrest Definition To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.
- English Word Wrest Definition To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
- English Word Wrest Definition To tune with a wrest, or key.
- English Word Wrest Definition The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
- English Word Wrest Definition Active or moving power.
- English Word Wrest Definition A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
- English Word Wrest Definition A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
- English Word Wrested Definition of Wrest
- English Word Wrester Definition One who wrests.
- English Word Wresting Definition of Wrest
- English Word Wrestle Definition To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
- English Word Wrestle Definition Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
- English Word Wrestle Definition To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
- English Word Wrestle Definition A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.
- English Word Wrestled Definition of Wrestle
- English Word Wrestler Definition One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.
- English Word Wrestling Definition of Wrestle
- English Word Wretch Definition A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.
- English Word Wretch Definition One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.
- English Word Wretched Definition Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
- English Word Wretched Definition Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
- English Word Wretched Definition Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
- English Word Wretchedly Definition In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.