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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. 1transitive verb

    Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

  2. 2transitive verb

    A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.

  3. 3transitive verb

    A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.

  4. 4transitive verb

    Means; contrivance.

  5. 5transitive 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. 6transitive 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. 7noun

    To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.

  8. 8noun

    To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.

  9. 9noun

    a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt

    Synonyms

    spanner
  10. 10noun

    a jerky pulling movement

    Synonyms

    twist
  11. 11noun

    a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments

    "the wrench to his knee occurred as he fell"

    "he was sidelined with a hamstring pull"

    Synonyms

    pulltwist
  12. 12verb

    twist suddenly so as to sprain

    "wrench one's ankle"

    "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"

    Synonyms

    ricksprainturntwistwrick
  13. 13verb

    twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish

    "Wring one's hand"

    Synonyms

    wring
  14. 14verb

    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. 15verb

    make a sudden twisting motion

Synonyms

spannertwistpullricksprainturnwrickwring

Common word forms

wrenchedwrencherwrencheswrenching

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