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wrenchingadjective intensely or unbearably painfulforced to make the emotionally wrenching decision to place her mother in a nursing home agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, racking, raging, tormenting, torturing, torturous acute, exquisite, extreme, fierce, intense, vehement, violentbiting, cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp, shooting, smarting, stabbing, stinging, tearing, tingling wrenchingnouna forceful rotating or pulling motion for the purpose of dislodging somethingafter a lot of wrenching and tugging, the plumber managed to pull the stubborn pipe free twist, twisting, wrench, wresting, wringing draft, draw, extraction, pull, tug, yankdislocation, displacement wrenchingverbpresent participle of wrenchto move by or as if by a forceful rotationwith one last sharp yank, he wrenched the lid off the bottle of ketchup twisting, wresting, wringing drawing, dredging (up), extracting, jerking, lugging, plucking, pulling, tugging, tweaking, yankingjimmying, levering, pryingbudging, dislocating, displacing, disturbing, removingshifting, transferring, transposing to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressurewrenched her shoulder by all of that heavy lifting pulling, racking, straining, stretching fraying, taxing, weakeningdamaging, harming, hurting, impairing, woundingbattering, bruising, tearingcrippling, laming, mangling, mutilating to separate or remove by forceful pullingwrenched the post out of the ground ripping, tearing, wresting, yanking grabbing, nabbing, seizing, snapping (up), snatchinglopping (off), nippingamputating, cutting (off), dissevering, severingextracting, forcing, jerking, prizing, prying, pulling, rooting (out), uprooting reattaching |