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单词 wrenching
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wrenchingn.

/ˈrɛn(t)ʃɪŋ/
Etymology: < wrench v. + -ing suffix1.
1.
a. The action of the verb in various senses; an instance of this.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun]
throwingOE
wringinga1375
twining1398
wrenching1398
wresting1398
writhing?a1400
wrying1566
wreathing1571
convolution1597
twinding1602
contortion1611
distorquement1628
distortion1718
twisting1725
quirling1754
circumgyration1843
the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [noun] > action or fact of putting or being out of shape > distortion > twisting and pulling
wrenching1398
wresting1398
wrench1530
convulsion1599
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville (Add. MS.) De Proprietatibus Rerum v. xxviii Þe hond is greued..by wrastinge and wrenching of ioyntes.
c1430 Lanfranc's Cirurg. (Add. MS.) 5 Þe secunde techynge a comyn word off wrenchynges out of Ioynte.
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 29v An other maketh a wrynchinge with hys backe.
1580 T. Blundeville Foure Offices Horsemanship (rev. ed.) 51 b Of the wrinching of the shoulder.
1672 tr. P. Barbette Chirurg. & Anat. Wks. i. v. 17 Sometimes the Bone is..forced out of its place..but a little, or half, which is called Sub-luxation, or Wrenching.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxii. 159 By the Twisting (or Renching) of the Wheels.
1821 Ld. Byron Two Foscari i. i, in Sardanapalus 189 My curdling limbs Quiver with the anticipated wrenching.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. xv. 260 The sudden wrenching of him..out of our boat.
1884 E. Yates Recoll. & Experiences I. 159 The charioteers..declined to submit them to the unavoidable twists and wrenchings.
figurative.1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) II. 1724/2 Their racking, writhing, wrinching [1563 wringing], and monstrously iniuryng of Gods holy scripture.1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Cciii Whose loue hath eased the wrenching of my heart.1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xvi. 391 No tyranny being equal to the wrenching of law for penal purposes.
b. spec. The action of rectifying a deformed foot, esp. by a foot-wrench.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > [noun] > rectifying deformed foot
wrenching1896
1896 A. H. Tubby Deformities 415 Wrenching..may be effected more especially in this degree by manual force, and in the severer degrees by special apparatus.
1896 A. H. Tubby Deformities 415 When wrenching is carried out with the hands.
c. New Zealand. = root pruning n. at root n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [noun] > pruning > root-pruning
wrenching1950
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 55/1 Toward the end of August root crops..tend to run to seed. This growth can be retarded considerably by wrenching..pushing a fork or spade into the soil..and..levering the roots up slightly. This breaks the extreme end of the taproot.
2. A griping pain in the bowels. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in stomach or bowels
womb achea1398
gnawing1398
torsionc1425
colicc1440
frettingc1440
the wormc1500
wringc1500
griping1526
wresting?1543
wringing?1550
bellyache1552
torment1578
colic passion1586
wind-colic1593
belly-thrawe1595
belly-grinding1597
fret1600
gripe1601
wrenching1607
mulligrubsa1625
bellywarka1652
torminaa1655
efferation1684
stomach-ache1763
gastrodynia1804
guts-ache1818
stony colic1822
wame-ill1829
gastralgia1834
tummy ache1926
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 124 Vexed much with wrinching and griping in the bowels.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 442 The wringings and wrinchings..in the guts or belly of a man or woman.
3. attributive in wrenching-iron.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > screwdrivers, wrenches, spanners > [noun] > spanner or wrench
turn-bolt1596
wrenching-iron1597
key1659
screw key1742
spanner1790
screw wrench1791
wrench1794
screw spanner1831
wrencher1832
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 22 Giue mee this mattocke, and this wrentching Iron.
1769 Public Advertiser 6 June 3/2 The Thieves left behind them a Wrenching Iron, about two Feet long.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

wrenchingadj.

Etymology: < wrench v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwrenching.
That wrenches or twists; of the nature of a wrench. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adjective]
wrestinga1529
writhing1556
retorting1588
wringinga1600
wrenching1618
reluctant1667
twirlinga1719
quirling1755
convoluting1818
contortional1918
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > relating to agony or torment > causing agony or torment
sharpc1000
grievousc1290
smartc1300
fellc1330
unsufferablea1340
keena1375
poignantc1390
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
stoutc1425
unbearablec1449
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
cruciable1578
raging1590
tormentuous1597
pungent1598
racking1598
acute1615
wrenching1618
excruciating1664
grinding1681
excruciate1773
discruciating1788
unendurable1801
of bare sufferance1823
perialgic1893
the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adjective]
anguishous?c1225
wounding?c1225
asperc1374
derflya1400
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
fretting1413
piercingc1450
anguish1477
piquant1521
anguishing?1566
plaguing1566
asperous?1567
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
wringing1576
cutting1582
tormentous1583
tormentful1596
tormentuous1597
racking1598
torturous1600
lacerating1609
torturing1611
tearinga1616
heart-aching1620
breast-rending1625
crucifying1648
tormentative1654
martyring?a1656
tormentive1655
discruciating1658
cruciatory1660
anguishful1685
brain-racking1708
probing1749
agonized1793
anguished1803
harrowing1810
vulnerary1821
grinding1869
torturesome1889
wrenching1889
tortuous1922
1618 T. Gainsford Glory Eng. ii. xxv. 315 Yet we haue still gone forward, and could not bee pull'd backe by any wrenching arme whatsoeuer.
1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. vii. 99 The stem must be..strengthened to resist the wrenching stresses.
1889 A. C. Gunter That Frenchman! xix. 248 He..gives this wrist..a wrenching twist.
1894 T. Pinkerton Blizzard 105 The thought..gave him a wrenching pang.

Derivatives

ˈwrenchingly adv.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adverb]
writhingly1556
wryingly1611
wrestingly1613
wrenchingly1884
1884 L. Macbean tr. Buchanan Spir. Songs 28 He was stripped and wrenchingly Stretched out with cruel strain.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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