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  • v.扭, 拧; n.板钳, 扳手
  • [英] v.扭, 拧 ( to move with a violent twist)
  • [例] wrench a screw off ( 用力拧下螺钉)

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I. verb

  • Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wrencan; akin to Old High German renken to twist and perhaps to Latin vergere to bend, incline
  • Date: before 12th century
  • intransitive verb
    • 1. to move with a violent twist; also to undergo twisting
    • 2. to pull or strain at something with violent twisting
  • transitive verb
    • 1. to twist violently
    • 2. to injure or disable by a violent twisting or straining <wrenched her back>
    • 3. change; especially distort, pervert
    • 4.
      • a. to pull or tighten by violent twisting or with violence
      • b. to snatch forcibly ; wrest
    • 5. to cause to suffer mental anguish ; rack
  • ? wrenchingly adverb

II. noun

  • Date: 1530
  • 1.
    • a. a violent twisting or a pull with or as if with twisting
    • b. a sharp twist or sudden jerk straining muscles or ligaments; also the resultant injury (as of a joint)
    • c. a distorting or perverting alteration
    • d. acute emotional distress ; sudden violent mental change
  • 2. a hand or power tool for holding, twisting, or turning an object (as a bolt or nut)
  • 3. monkey wrench 2


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