Wrench :: Wrench (v. t.) Means; contrivance.

Wrench :: 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 :: 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 :: Wrench (n.) To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence..

Wrench :: Wrench (n.) To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert..

Wrenched :: Wrenched (imp. & p. p.) of Wrenc.

Wrenching :: Wrenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrenc.

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting..

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key..

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion..

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) Active or moving power.

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..

Wrested :: Wrested (imp. & p. p.) of Wres.

Wrester :: Wrester (n.) One who wrests.

Wresting :: Wresting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wres.

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully..

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend..

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.

Wrestle :: Wrestle (n.) A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.

Wrestled :: Wrestled (imp. & p. p.) of Wrestl.

Wrestler :: Wrestler (n.) One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.

Wrestling :: Wrestling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrestl.

Wretch :: Wretch (v. t.) A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.

Wretch :: Wretch (v. t.) One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch..

Wretched :: Wretched (a.) Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting..

Wretched :: Wretched (a.) Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin..

Wretched :: Wretched (a.) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.

Wretchedly :: Wretchedly (adv.) In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.

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