Usually means: Twisted or pulled with force.
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  1. wrenched: Merriam-Webster
  2. wrenched: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wrenched: Vocabulary.com
  4. Wrenched, wrenched: Wordnik
  5. wrenched: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. wrenched: Wiktionary
  7. wrenched: Dictionary.com
  8. wrenched: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Wrenched: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Wrenched: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. wrenched: FreeDictionary.org
  12. wrenched: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wrenched: Legal dictionary

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  1. wrenched: Encyclopedia

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  1. wrenched: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. Wrenched: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Wrench)

noun:  A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
noun:  An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
noun:  (obsolete) A trick or artifice.
noun:  (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.
noun:  (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.
noun:  (archaic) A winch or windlass.
noun:  (obsolete) A screw.
noun:  A distorting change from the original meaning.
noun:  (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
noun:  (UK) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
noun:  A violent emotional change caused by separation.
noun:  (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
noun:  (obsolete) means; contrivance
noun:  In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
verb:  (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
verb:  (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
verb:  (transitive) To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent.
verb:  (transitive) To rack with pain; to be hurt or distressed.
verb:  (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
verb:  (transitive) To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
verb:  (intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.
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