Definitions for wrist

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Spelling: [rist]
IPA: /rɪst/

Wrist is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in wrist (irstw).

Definitions for wrist

noun

  1. the carpus or lower part of the forearm where it joins the hand.
  2. the joint or articulation between the forearm and the hand.
  3. the part of an article of clothing that fits around the wrist.
  4. Machinery. wrist pin.

Origin of wrist

before 950; Middle English, Old English; cognate with German Rist back of hand, Old Norse rist instep; akin to writhe

Examples for wrist

She swayed a little, so that the officer tightened his clasp on her wrist.

While that might just seem like a slap on the wrist compared to the cost of insurance, the penalty increases every year.

So vigorous was her movement that Cassidy's clasp was thrown off the wrist.

He rose with the blow; all his energy, from wrist to instep, was in that lifting drive.

Simply tap on your own screen, and haptic feedback mechanisms in the watch will transfer the gesture to the wrist of your friend.

Then he does what he does about every ten minutes, which is light up a True green and smoke it down to his wrist.

In a little time your wrist will be stronger and your cut more shrewd.

He also was diagnosed with “head, neck, wrist and back injuries – and the biggest was TBI, or traumatic brain injury.”

She had begun to pull away in alarm when he seized her wrist.

The wrist, in the new Apple world, is where everything happens.

Word Value for wrist
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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