wrenching 的 3 个定义
- to twist suddenly and forcibly; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist: He wrenched the prisoner's wrist.
- to overstrain or injure by a sudden, violent twist: When she fell, she wrenched her ankle.
- to affect distressingly as if by a wrench.
- to wrest, as from the right use or meaning: to wrench the facts out of context.
- to twist, turn, or move suddenly aside: He wrenched away.
- to give a wrench or twist at something.
- a wrenching movement; a sudden, violent twist: With a quick wrench, she freed herself.
- a painful, straining twist, as of the ankle or wrist.
- a sharp, distressing strain, as to the feelings.
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wrenching 近义词
jerk, force violently
更多wrenching例句
- With a mold to shape their composite, the scientists made a working wrench.
- Sometimes producers introduce special “powers” that can throw a wrench into things.
- The latter point throws a big wrench into proponents of a “herd immunity” approach wherein you simply let enough people get infected and become immune.
- Then, in his second year on the job, Culp got thrown a monkey wrench in the form of the coronavirus.
- Though the pandemic has thrown a wrench in the growth of China’s middle class, it is nonetheless growing, meaning millions more people per year have the means to acquire possessions like cars.
- Dickens was a master of heart-wrenching pathos because he felt every pain as he wrote.
- Minors are some of the most heart-wrenching cases of police shootings.
- Dern, then, is responsible for carrying the emotional weight of some of the most wrenching scenes in the pair of tearjerkers.
- The idea that this journey is being transformed into a “pay-per-prayer” weekend, as Sardar notes, is heart wrenching and worrying.
- And throughout her interview, Maynard stresses the importance of her family during this heart-wrenching time.
- "I don't believe in such folly," cried Dorothy angrily, wrenching her hand from the woman's grasp.
- Then I felt a sharp wrenching and a great pain in my neck, to which it seemed my departed head had, after all, returned.
- He staggered for an instant, and she succeeded, at last, in wrenching open the door.
- Wrenching himself loose from the curtain, he jumped and landed on Michael's back.
- "Shot in the hand, I understand," Mayhan went on, wrenching the bag open at length with considerable fuss and feather.