wrench

wrench is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
2. transitive verb. A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.
3. transitive verb. A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.
4. transitive verb. Means; contrivance.
5. transitive verb. 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.
6. transitive verb. 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.
7. noun. To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.
8. noun. To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.
9. noun. a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt

   Synonyms: spanner

10. noun. a jerky pulling movement

    Synonyms: twist

11. noun. a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments

    "the wrench to his knee occurred as he fell"

    "he was sidelined with a hamstring pull"

    Synonyms: pull, twist

12. verb. twist suddenly so as to sprain

    "wrench one's ankle"

    "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"

    Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrick

13. verb. twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish

    "Wring one's hand"

    Synonyms: wring

14. verb. twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates

    "wrench a window off its hinges"

    "wrench oneself free from somebody's grip"

    Synonyms: twist

15. verb. make a sudden twisting motion

Synonyms

spanner, twist, pull, rick, sprain, turn, wrick, wring

Common word forms

wrenched, wrencher, wrenches, wrenching

Words from these letters

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