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- Wrench - v. t. - Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
- Wrench - v. t. - A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.
- Wrench - v. t. - A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.
- Wrench - v. t. - Means; contrivance.
- Wrench - 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.
- Wrench - 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.
- Wrench - n. - To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.
- Wrench - n. - To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.
- Wrenched - imp. & p. p. - of Wrench
- Wrenching - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Wrench
- Stock - n. - A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.
- Betty - n. - A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.
- Spanner - n. - An iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose.
- Extort - v. t. - To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.
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- H5557 סָלַף - 5557 סָלַף - סָלַף - - çâlaph - saw-laf' - a primitive root; properly, to wrench, i.e. (figuratively) to subvert; overthrow, pervert. - Verb - heb
- H4115 מַהְפֶּכֶת - 4115 מַהְפֶּכֶת - מַהְפֶּכֶת - - mahpeketh - mah-peh'-keth - from הָפַךְ; a wrench, i.e. the stocks; prison, stocks. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H7078 קֶנֶץ - 7078 קֶנֶץ - קֶנֶץ - - qenets - keh'-nets - from an unused root probably meaning to wrench; perversion; end. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G4761 στρεβλόω - 4761 στρεβλόω - ΣΤΡΕΒΛΌΩ - - streblóō - streb-lo'-o - from a derivative of στρέφω; to wrench, i.e. (specially), to torture (by the rack), but only figuratively, to pervert:-- wrest. - Verb - greek