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wrenched, ppl. a.
(rɛn(t)ʃt, poet. ˈrɛn(t)ʃɪd)
[f. wrench v. + -ed1.]
1. Sprained, strained; dislocated.
1556Withals Dict. (1562) 77 b/2 Wrenched or hurte in the iointes, distortus. 1567Gresham in Burgon Life (1839) II. 212, I wolde have waited upon you.., but that my wrenched legge would not suffer me. 1684J. S. Profit & Pleas. United 73 Foot out of Joynt or wrinched Foot. 1872Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 87 Who never knewest..pang Of wrench'd or broken limb. 1897A. Page Afternoon Ride 89 Brierly loosed the wrenched wrist.
b. Twisted, wrung. Also with off. Occas. fig.
1894A. Morrison M. Hewitt Investigator 245 A trap-door..six or eight inches open, the edge resting on the half-wrenched-off bolt. 1908A. Noyes W. Morris 63 There are wrenched hands and writhen lips in it. 1915A. Reade Poems Love & War 78 From our tears..and wrenchèd hearts, Let some fair harvest spring.
2. Pros. (See quot.)
1891J. C. Parsons Engl. Versif. 144 Wrenched Accent.—This term is used when the metrical stress is thrown upon a syllable which would not ordinarily be accented. |