Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to wrench
Participle: wrenched
Gerund: wrenching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | wrench |
| you | wrench |
| he;she;it | wrenches |
| we | wrench |
| you | wrench |
| they | wrench |
Perfect
| I | have wrenched |
| you | have wrenched |
| he;she;it | has wrenched |
| we | have wrenched |
| you | have wrenched |
| they | have wrenched |
Past
| I | wrenched |
| you | wrenched |
| he;she;it | wrenched |
| we | wrenched |
| you | wrenched |
| they | wrenched |
Pluperfect
| I | had wrenched |
| you | had wrenched |
| he;she;it | had wrenched |
| we | had wrenched |
| you | had wrenched |
| they | had wrenched |
Future
| I | will wrench |
| you | will wrench |
| he;she;it | will wrench |
| we | will wrench |
| you | will wrench |
| they | will wrench |
Future Perfect
| I | will have wrenched |
| you | will have wrenched |
| he;she;it | will have wrenched |
| we | will have wrenched |
| you | will have wrenched |
| they | will have wrenched |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | wrench |
| you | wrench |
| he;she;it | wrench |
| we | wrench |
| you | wrench |
| they | wrench |
Perfect
| I | have wrenched |
| you | have wrenched |
| he;she;it | have wrenched |
| we | have wrenched |
| you | have wrenched |
| they | have wrenched |
Imperfect
| I | wrenched |
| you | wrenched |
| he;she;it | wrenched |
| we | wrenched |
| you | wrenched |
| they | wrenched |
Pluperfect
| I | had wrenched |
| you | had wrenched |
| he;she;it | had wrenched |
| we | had wrenched |
| you | had wrenched |
| they | had wrenched |
Conditional
Present
| I | would wrench |
| you | would wrench |
| he;she;it | would wrench |
| we | would wrench |
| you | would wrench |
| they | would wrench |
Perfect
| I | would have wrenched |
| you | would have wrenched |
| he;she;it | would have wrenched |
| we | would have wrenched |
| you | would have wrenched |
| they | would have wrenched |
Imperative
| you | wrench |
| we | Let's wrench |
| you | wrench |
Verbs conjugated like 'wrench'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'wrench'
drench,
french,
French,
trench,
wench,
wretch,
areach,
bench,
blench,
branch,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- take by force
- exact, extort, tear, wring
- twist
- tug, wrest, turn, strain, jerk, dislodge, yank, pull
Antonyms
- twist
- unwind, straighten, disentangle, separate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
wrencan "to twist," from P.Gmc.
*wrankijanan (cf. O.H.G.
renken, Ger.
renken "to twist, wrench," O.E.
wringan "to wring"), from PIE
*wreng- "to turn" (cf. Skt.
vrnakti "turns, twists," Lith.
rengtis "to grow crooked, to writhe"), nasalized variant of
*werg- "to turn" (cf. L.
vergere "to turn, tend toward"), from base
*wer- "to turn, bend" (see versus).
2. From Middle English wrenchen, from Old English wrenċan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrankijan, from Proto-Germanic *wrankijaną. Compare German renken. See: Middle English '
wrenchen', Proto-Germanic '
*wrankijaną', German, old spelling '
renken'.
Verbs referencing "wrench"
Galician
ranquear, German, old spelling
renken.
Sample Sentences
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With a surge of adrenaline, she wrenched the car door off and pulled out the injured man.
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Be careful not to wrench your ankle walking along those loose stones!
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And what actinic, mind-wrenching form could the countermeme take? How could human hands assemble something so devastatingly powerful and hold it steady; what human mind could wield it without exploding from the inside out? [2019 December 9, qntm, “Wild Light”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 191:]
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The plumber wrenched the pipes until they came loose.
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[S]end me that hag hither; she shall avouch what it was that she hath given to the wretch Dryfesdale, or the pilniewinks and thumbikins shall wrench it out of her finger-joints. [1820, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in The Abbot. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 173–174:]