Definitions for Wrench

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Spelling: [rench]

IPA: /rɛntʃ/

Wrench is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in Wrench (cehnrw).

Definitions for Wrench

noun

1. a wrenching movement; a sudden, violent twist:
2. a painful, straining twist, as of the ankle or wrist.
3. a sharp, distressing strain, as to the feelings.
4. a twisting or distortion, as of meaning.
5. a tool for gripping and turning or twisting the head of a bolt, a nut, a pipe, or the like, commonly consisting of a bar of metal with fixed or adjustable jaws.

verb (used with object)

1. to twist suddenly and forcibly; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist:
2. to overstrain or injure (the ankle, knee, etc.) by a sudden, violent twist:
3. to affect distressingly as if by a wrench.
4. to wrest, as from the right use or meaning:

verb (used without object)

1. to twist, turn, or move suddenly aside:
2. to give a wrench or twist at something.

Origin of Wrench

before 1050; Middle English wrenchen (v.), Old English wrencan to twist, turn; cognate with German renken

Examples for Wrench

Hillary Clinton, he argues, throws a wrench into the system.

Now the government of President François Hollande is throwing a wrench into the American rush toward peace with Iran.

Abruptly she fell on her knees, caught his hand and kissed it before he could wrench it from her.

The wrench upon it had already pulled the bodkin from the wainscot.

Oh, the wrench to the mother's heart at the thought of what she could foresee!

Factories were hiring anyone who could breathe and turn a wrench.

Then tighten the sealing nuts with the special Exide wrench.

S'pose that fellar should rise up, an' wrench off them bars!

Even one minor glitch and the machine could wrench itself out of his control.

Should we see David Lee (Zach Grenier) as the wrench in the works at Lockhart & Associates?