Synonyms for wrench
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1. wrenchnoun

   a hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes.

   Synonyms:
   spanner

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1. wrench

   Synonyms:
   wrest, twist, distort, strain, extort, wring

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1. wrench, twist, pullnoun

   a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments

   "the wrench to his knee occurred as he fell"; "he was sidelined with a hamstring pull"

   Synonyms:
   turn, turn of events, spanner, drag, construction, device, gimmick, spin, twist, bend, clout, twisting, winding, wind, eddy, whirl, pulling, twirl, pull, braid, puff, tress, kink, crook, plait

2. twist, wrenchnoun

   a jerky pulling movement

   Synonyms:
   turn, turn of events, tress, construction, device, gimmick, spin, twist, bend, twisting, winding, wind, eddy, whirl, twirl, pull, braid, kink, crook, plait, spanner

3. wrench, spannerverb

   a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt

   Synonyms:
   pull, twist, spanner

4. wrench, twistverb

   twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates

   "wrench a window off its hinges"; "wrench oneself free from somebody's grip"; "a deep sigh was wrenched from his chest"

   Synonyms:
   turn, sophisticate, squirm, curve, wring, wrestle, rick, twist, bend, wrick, wind, convolute, pervert, distort, sprain, deform, twine, worm, twist around, flex, wriggle, writhe

5. wrenchverb

   make a sudden twisting motion

   Synonyms:
   sprain, wring, twist, rick, wrick, turn

6. wring, wrenchverb

   twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish

   "Wring one's hand"

   Synonyms:
   deform, gouge, squeeze, wring, extort, rack, twist, sprain, contort, wrick, turn, rick, distort

7. twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, rickverb

   twist suddenly so as to sprain

   "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days"

   Synonyms:
   bend, wriggle, wrick, wind, deform, change state, twist, release, rick, wring, call on, worm, flex, convolute, writhe, move around, become, grow, turn, sour, sophisticate, work, sprain, curve, twist around, change by reversal, twine, distort, wrestle, turn over, reverse, plow, ferment, squirm, pervert, plough

Matched Categories

1. • Injury
   • Movement
   • Pull
   • Twist

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1. wrenchverb

   Synonyms:
   wrest, wring, twist

2. wrenchverb

   Synonyms:
   sprain, strain, distort

3. wrenchnoun

   Synonyms:
   twist

4. wrenchnoun

   Synonyms:
   sprain, strain

5. wrenchnoun

   Synonyms:
   screw-key

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1. List of paraphrases for "wrench":

   dongle, spanner, key, curly, brace, switch, ratchet, stopcock

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1. Don Crocetti:

   The use of social media is a wrench in their toolbox. It’s not that you use that same wrench for everything you do, but it’s a wrench, it’s a different-sized tool, and you have use that selectively.

2. Philip Baggaley:

   Standard Poor certainly could be Standard Poor, the initial surge in bookings, there was probably some pent-up demand in there. There's no doubt that the increase in [ Covid-19 ] cases and quarantines throws a monkey wrench into it.

3. Kurt Zuhlke:

   I wanted to throw the wrench into the gears and make sure that everybody realized that something is really wrong in this country.

4. Elie Honig:

   House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is just basically talking smack, trying to throw a monkey wrench into this procedure.

5. Andrew Schneider:

   Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.