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Wrested vs Wrench - What's the difference?

wrested | wrench |

As verbs the difference between wrested and wrench

is that wrested is (wrest) while wrench is (obsolete) to violently move in a turn or writhe.

As a noun wrench is

(obsolete) a trick or artifice.

wrested

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wrest)

    • Anagrams

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    wrest

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pull or twist violently.
  • To obtain by pulling or violent force.
    • He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.
  • * Milton
    • Did not she / Of Timna first betray me, and reveal / The secret wrested from me
  • (figuratively) To seize.
  • * Macaulay
    • They instantly wrested the government out of the hands of Hastings.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 12
    • There was one of the tribe of Tarzan who questioned his authority, and that was Terkoz, the son of Tublat, but he so feared the keen knife and the deadly arrows of his new lord that he confined the manifestation of his objections to petty disobediences and irritating mannerisms; Tarzan knew, however, that he but waited his opportunity to wrest the kingship from him by some sudden stroke of treachery, and so he was ever on his guard against surprise.
  • (figuratively) To twist, pervert, distort.
  • * Bible, Exodus xxiii. 6
    • Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor.
  • * South
    • their arts of wresting , corrupting, and false interpreting the holy text
  • * 1597 , Shakespeare,
    • And, I beseech you,
    Wrest once the law to your authority;
    To do a great right do a little wrong,
    And curb this cruel devil of his will.
  • To tune with a wrest, or key.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
    • (Hooker)
  • (obsolete) Active or motive power.
    • (Spenser)
  • (music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The minstrel wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest , or key, with which he tuned his harp.
  • A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.

    • Derived terms

    * wrest pin * wrest plank (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    wrench

    English

    (wikipedia wrench)

    Alternative forms

    * ** wrenche * ** wrinche * ** wringe

    Noun

    (wrenches)
  • (obsolete) A trick or artifice.
  • * c. 1210 , MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246
    • Mon mai longe liues wene; / Ac ofte him liedh the wrench .
  • (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.
  • A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
    • With a wrench , which threw his victim back upon the bed as though hurled from a height, he turned and sprang at us.
  • An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
  • (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.
  • (archaic) A winch or windlass.
  • (obsolete) A screw.
  • A distorting change from the original meaning.
  • (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
  • A violent emotional change caused by separation.
  • (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
  • (obsolete) means; contrivance
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Synonyms

    * (tool) spanner (UK, Australia)

    Derived terms

    * adjustable wrench * socket wrench * monkey-wrench, monkey wrench, monkeywrench * pipe wrench * screw wrench * torque wrench * torsion wrench * tube wrench * dog bone wrench

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe.
  • To pull or twist violently.
    • With a surge of adrenaline, she wrenched the car door off and pulled out the injured man.
  • (obsolete) To turn aside or deflect.
  • (obsolete) To slander.
  • (obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch.
  • To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
    • Be careful not to wrench your ankle walking along those loose stones!
  • To distort from the original meaning.
  • (obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
  • (intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
  • To rack with pain.
  • To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
  • To use the tool known as a wrench.
    • The plumber wrenched the pipes until they came loose.

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