Thesaurus: wrench

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1. v. t. Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
2. v. t. A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.
3. v. t. A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.
4. v. t. Means; contrivance.
5. v. t. 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. v. t. 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. n. To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.
8. n. To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.
9. n. a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
10. n. a jerky pulling movement
11. n. a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt
12. v. twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates