wrench

Pronunciation: ['rentʃ]

Average Rank: 16166

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 扳钳, 扳手, 扭伤, 歪曲, 痛苦 vt. 猛扭, 扭伤, 曲解, 折磨 vi. 猛扭, 猛绞

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
  • n. a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt
  • v. twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
  • v. make a sudden twisting motion
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating:
Difficulty: INTERMEDIATE
Exam Tags: cet6 ky ielts gre

Word Forms:
Past: wrenched
Present Participle: wrenching
Past Participle: wrenched
Plural: wrenches
3rd Person: wrenches

Word Frequency Rankings

TV & Movie Scripts
#8497

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 15.0% (Top 15.0% most frequent)
15.0%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus