wrenchedadj.
/rɛn(t)ʃt/, U.S. /rɛn(t)ʃt/ 1.
a. Sprained, strained; dislocated.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [adjective] > sprain or strain
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sprained1606
strained1611
raxed1824
ricked1839
paratonic1857
wrangled1876
sprung1912
pulled1913
1556 J. Withals Short Dict. (new ed.) sig. Xi/2 Wrenched or hurt in the iointes, distortus.
1567 T. Gresham in J. W. Burgon Life & Times Sir T. Gresham (1839) II. 212 I wolde have waited upon you.., but that my wrenched legge would not suffer me.
1684 J. Smith Profit & Pleasure United 73 Foot out of Joynt or wrinched Foot.
1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 8 Who never knewest..pang Of wrench'd or broken limb.
1897 A. Page Afternoon Ride 89 Brierly loosed the wrenched wrist.
b. Twisted, wrung. Also with off. Occasionally figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adjective] > twisted
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1894 A. Morrison Martin Hewitt 245 A trap-door..six or eight inches open, the edge resting on the half-wrenched-off bolt.
1908 A. Noyes William Morris 63 There are wrenched hands and writhen lips in it.
1915 A. Reade Poems of Love & War 78 From our tears..and wrenchèd hearts, Let some fair harvest spring.
2. Prosody. (See quot. 1891.)
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1891 J. C. Parsons Eng. Versif. 144 Wrenched Accent.—This term is used when the metrical stress is thrown upon a syllable which would not ordinarily be accented.
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