wrench
/rentʃ/ v [T] (TWIST)Definition
› to pull and twist something suddenly or violently away from a fixed position: The ball was wrenched from his hands by another player. › If you wrench part of your body, such as your arm or knee, you twist it badly and injure it: He wrenched his back while digging in the garden.
(Definition of wrench v (TWIST) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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