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wrenching   (TTS Sound)

The verb wrench has 4 senses

• wrench, twist -- (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"; "a deep sigh was wrenched from his chest")


• wrench -- (make a sudden twisting motion)


• wring, wrench -- (twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand")


• twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, rick -- (twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days")

The adj wrenching has 1 sense

• racking, wrenching -- (causing great physical or mental suffering; "a wrenching pain")