WRENCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrenching mean? 

• WRENCHING (adjective)
  The adjective WRENCHING has 1 sense:

1. causing great physical or mental suffering

  Familiarity information: WRENCHING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRENCHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing great physical or mental suffering

Synonyms:

racking; wrenching

Context example:

a wrenching pain

Similar:

painful (causing physical or psychological pain)

 Context examples 

There had been no wrenching or jerking.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then I braced myself again to my horrid task, and found by wrenching away tomb-tops one other of the sisters, the other dark one.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But the man, shifting the club from right to left, coolly caught him by the under jaw, at the same time wrenching downward and backward.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He appeared to be wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)