Word Finder - wrenching

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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.

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The act by which something is wrenched.

She shot out of her seat and to the door, wrenching it open.

In his absence, it was too heart wrenching to even look, knowing he was unavailable and unable to help.

After more gut wrenching waiting the word came in.

She whirled and marched to a closet, wrenching it open.

The gut wrenching pain left him unable to process any rational thought.

But in spite of wholesale terrorism he only succeeded in wrenching five more seats from the coalition, and on Jan.

I shall die! she muttered, wrenching herself from Marya Dmitrievna's hands with a vicious effort and sinking down again into her former position.

The publican was fighting one of the smiths at the door, and when the workmen came out the smith, wrenching himself free from the tavern keeper, fell face downward on the pavement.

It was so heart wrenching to Martha she insisted Howie try more than once, in an effort to succeed.

She stopped him, heart wrenching.

He sought a distraction to keep him from wrenching open the door and hauling the small queen away from her second.

Darkyn was serious about letting them go.  Wrenching open the door, Rhyn strode into the chamber.

It was hard work, it was hot work, it was heart wrenching yet extremely rewarding.

It was absolutely heart wrenching, because there is little you can do for them once they catch this deadly disease.

It was heart wrenching when sometimes our tip failed to bring about justice.

The wind made short work of Cynthia Byrne's dainty umbrella, wrenching it to a mass of twist­ed wire and ripped fabric as they scrambled into the car.

Losing a child at any time is heart wrenching, but laying a seemingly healthy baby down to sleep and finding him or her dead the next morning is unbearable.

The Holocaust Museum shows visitors a heart wrenching view of what Jews went through during World War Two.

Being the parent of a teenage runaway or hitchhiker is a scary, stressful and heart wrenching situation.

Molly came on stage and had to watch herself being dumped by Jason all over again and then watch his gut wrenching crying after she left.

This can be quite heart wrenching to watch and is often very debilitating for the child as well as frustrating for parents and teachers.

The causes of acute wryneck in older children and adults are not usually clear but seem to be related to wrenching the neck muscles, sleeping with the neck in an odd position or similar causes.