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wrenching
(encz) | wrenching,kroucení n: Zdeněk Brož |
wrenching
(encz) | wrenching,kroutící adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Wrenching
(gcide) | 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.]
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1. To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by
violence.
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Wrench his sword from him. --Shak.
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Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched
With a woeful agony. --Coleridge.
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2. To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.
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You wrenched your foot against a stone. --Swift.
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wrenching
(wn) | wrenching
adj 1: causing great physical or mental suffering; "a wrenching
pain" [syn: racking, wrenching] |
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