Word Finder - wrenched

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To violently move in a turn or writhe.

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To pull or twist violently.

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With a surge of adrenaline, she wrenched the car door off and pulled out the injured man.

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To turn aside or deflect.

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To slander.

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To tighten with or as if with a winch.

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To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.

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Be careful not to wrench your ankle walking along those loose stones!

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To distort from the original meaning.

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To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.

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To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.

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To rack with pain.

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To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.

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To use the tool known as a wrench.

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The plumber wrenched the pipes until they came loose.

He wrenched open the door.

The pounding didn't stop until she wrenched it open.

He wrenched the door open and slammed it behind him.

Before she could search the room for something to use as a weapon or run, the door wrenched open.

Startled, she froze, watching the giant warriors fight until Leyon wrenched her forward.

Selyn wrenched the door open fast enough to startle Deidre.

Jilian wrenched her up.

The door was wrenched open, and a man pointed the gun at her.

It wrenched open, and a man in a black trench coat Damian's size looked her over once.

The vehicle rambled over a large boulder, skidding off to the left before Westlake wrenched the wheel and righted it.

It was wrenched away from her, and she grated her teeth.

He breezed by her and wrenched the door open, slamming it closed.

He wrenched her head back and gripped her neck, nuzzling it.

Given his guard of four warriors and his unfriendly gaze, maybe she should be grateful someone wrenched her arm off to get her away from him.

The insurgent pinned her in place with one foot on her stomach and wrenched off her civilian grays.

He wrenched it away, and she sighed.

He didn't wait for them but wrenched away.

The many and extraordinary monuments of aqueous energy include massive columns wrenched from their place in the ceiling and prostrate on the floor; the Hollow Column, 40 ft.

Pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with a crash.

She couldn't run, couldn't move and she tried hard to convince herself to pass out as the garage door was wrenched open.

He wrenched the attacker across his body and pinned him beneath his own body weight.

Dusty wrenched the bedroom door open, even angrier to see Darian and Bianca on the couch, talking.

She wrenched open the medicine cabinet for the most powerful of the drugs Dr. Mallard prescribed for her and slammed the cabinet shut.

They circled the hacienda to Sofia's car and dove into it just as the front door wrenched open.

Dustin wrenched her to her feet.

She wrenched free of his hold and pushed him hard enough to slide out from between him and the wall.

She wrenched away from him, desire and thirst making her head reel.

She wrenched away, only for the robed man to snatch her ankle and drag her down.

She wrenched away, terrified.

She wrenched the door open.

Lana felt the weight lifted, and she wrenched the straps as tight as she could.

Smashing her forehead against his nose, Jenn wrenched the knife free and drove it through him.

Her father had looked similar in his last days, when the demon within him finally wrenched away control of his body.

She kicked him and wrenched away, running.

Faith-knowledge appears to be wrenched from its bearings and suspended in mid-ocean.

Determined first to get rid of her cotton mouth and then to kill Jake, she wrenched open the door, blinded by the hall light she didn't recall leaving on.

Her daily debate about drinking blood made her pace in front of Damian's room until he wrenched the door open and stared at her, bleary-eyed and bare-chested.

While I don't agree with the method, I came to understand that it wrenched my parent's heart to do it but there was no question about their motives—they did it out of love.

She breezed by him and paused at the door to say, "Rhyn, I.m not talking about Toby," before she wrenched it open.

Katie couldn't help the bubble of happy laughter that escaped.  Death chuckled with her then motioned to the stairwell Toby was desperately trying to pull Katie towards.  They ran through the palace.  Katie trailed the angel until they reached a small chamber she would've mistaken as a janitor's closet on the top level.  Toby wrenched open the door and ducked into the dark room.  A portal glowed in the center.  Katie entered, overwhelmed by the thought of leaving.

A few miles away, a family who have everything are wrenched apart by a tragic accident.

She recognized the petite blonde, who wrenched open the door and ran.

He wrenched Sofi off the ground in a tight bear hug and deposited her on the other side of the gate line.

She touched her once before Talon wrenched her up.

She wrenched away from both men and pressed the heels of her hands against her eyes, trying to stop the visions.

Rhyn planted one foot at the base of Kiki.s neck and wrenched his head back.

Now, in my experience, things never exactly slide off anything, more like needing to be wrenched off with brute force.

The mudguard snapped into two pieces, and all three fixing points were wrenched away, leaving three large tears.

She sobbed and begged them to let her out until Carmen felt like her heart was being brutally wrenched from her body.

According to the paintings of the Middle Kingdom in the tombs of Beni Hasan, the battlements of brick fortresses were attacked and wrenched away with long and massive spears.