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wrench - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | wrench |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | jerk, force violently |
| Synonyms: | bend, coerce, compel, contort, dislocate, dislodge, distort, drag, exact, extract, pervert, pinch, pull, rend, rip, screw, sprain, squeeze, strain, tear, tug, tweak, twist, wrest, wring, yank |
| Main Entry: | blemish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flaw, disfigure |
| Synonyms: | blot, blotch, blur, damage, deface, distort, harm, hurt, impair, injure, maim, mangle, mar, mark, mutilate, pervert, prejudice, scar, smudge, spoil, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish, twist, vitiate, wrench |
| Antonyms: | adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, ornament |
| Main Entry: | contort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disfigure, distort |
| Synonyms: | bend, convolute, curve, deform, knot, torture, twist, warp, wind, wrench, writhe, gnarl, misshape |
| Antonyms: | beautify, smooth |
| Main Entry: | crick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscle spasm |
| Synonyms: | ache, convulsion, cramp, jarring, kink, pain, stitch, twinge, wrench, charley horse |
| Main Entry: | distort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deform; falsify |
| Synonyms: | alter, angle, belie, bend, bias, buckle, change, collapse, color, con, contort, crush, curve, deceive, decline, deteriorate, deviate, disfigure, doctor*, fake, fudge*, garble, knot, lie, mangle, melt, misconstrue, misinterpret, misrepresent, pervert, sag, scam*, slant, slump, snow*, torture, twist, warp, whitewash*, wind, wrench, writhe, gnarl, make out like, misshape, phony up, put one on, trump up |
| Antonyms: | beautify, straight, shape nicely |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exact |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demand, call for |
| Synonyms: | assess, bleed, call, challenge, claim, coerce, command, compel, constrain, extort, extract, force, gouge, impose, levy, oblige, pinch, postulate, put on, require, requisition, solicit, squeeze, wrench, wrest, wring, insist upon, lean on, shake down* |
| Antonyms: | give |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat; blackmail |
| Synonyms: | bleed*, bully, clip, coerce, demand, educe, elicit, evince, exact, extract, fleece, force, get, gouge, hold up*, ice*, make pay through nose, milk*, obtain, pinch, pull one's leg, put screws to, put the arm on, secure, shake down*, skin*, soak, squeeze, stick, sting, wrench, wrest, wring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | harm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | injure; cause evil |
| Synonyms: | abuse, blemish, bruise, cripple, crush, damage, discommode, get, hurt, impair, inconvenience, maim, maltreat, mangle, mar, mess up*, misuse, molest, mutilate, nick, outrage, prejudice, put down, ruin, sabotage, sap*, shatter, shock, spoil, stab, tarnish, total, trample, tweak*, undermine, vandalize, vitiate, wing*, wound, wreck, wrench, wrong, zing*, dilapidate, disserve, do violence to, dump on, ill-treat, incommode, louse up, muck up*, scathe, traumatize |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, benefit, care, fix, help, improve, mend |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jerk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move with lurch |
| Synonyms: | bounce, bump, dance, flick, fling, flip, flop, grab, hook, hurtle, jolt, lug, pluck, pull, quake, quiver, seize, shiver, sling, snag, snatch, throw, thrust, tug, tweak, twitch, whisk, wiggle, wrench, wrest, wriggle, wring, yank, shrug, vellicate |
| Main Entry: | pang |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ache, twinge |
| Synonyms: | agony, anguish, bite, discomfort, distress, gripe, misery, pain, prick, spasm, stab, sting, stitch, throb, throe, wrench |
| Antonyms: | tingle |
| Main Entry: | rack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | torture; strain |
| Synonyms: | afflict, agonize, crucify, distress, force, harass, martyr, oppress, pain, persecute, pull, shake, stress, stretch, tear, torment, try, wrench, wring, excruciate, harrow |
| Notes: | rack is the linear gear and pinion is the circular gear in a mechanism rack is destruction and ruin is destitution; in rack and ruin, rack is a variation of wrack and wreck |
| Antonyms: | please, pleasure, soothe |
| Main Entry: | snatch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grab away |
| Synonyms: | abduct, catch, clutch, collar*, gain, grapple, grasp, grip, jerk, jump, kidnap, nab, nail*, pluck, pull, rescue, seize, snag, steal, take, win, wrench, wrest, yank, clap hands on, get fingers on, make off with, spirit away |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tug |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | quick pull |
| Synonyms: | drag, draw, haul, heave, jerk, lug, strain, toil, tow, traction, wrench, yank |
| Antonyms: | push |
| Main Entry: | wring |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | twist, contort |
| Synonyms: | choke, coerce, compress, draw out, exact, extort, extract, force, gouge, hurt, pain, pinch, pry, push, screw, squeeze, strain, strangle, throttle, turn, wrench, wrest, shake down |
| Antonyms: | untwist |
| Main Entry: | yank |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pull hard and fast |
| Synonyms: | draw, extract, hitch, jerk, lug, snap, snatch, tear, tug, twitch, wrench, evulse, vellicate |
| Antonyms: | push |
| Main Entry: | draw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move something by pulling |
| Synonyms: | attract, bring, carry, convey, cull, draft, drag, drain, educe, elicit, evoke, extract, fetch, gather, haul, hook, jerk, lug, magnetize, pick, pluck, pump, rake, siphon, tap, tow, trail, trawl, tug, wrench, yank, wind in |
| Antonyms: | exhale, propel, push, repel, repulse |
| Main Entry: | grip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clasp, embrace |
| Synonyms: | anchor, brace, catch, cinch, cincture, clamp, clench, clinch, clutch, coercion, constraint, duress, enclosure, fastening, fixing, grapple, grasp, gripe, hold, hook, ligature, lug, purchase, restraint, snatch, squeeze, strength, tenure, vise, wrench, clamping, crushing, enclosing, grapnel, handclasp, handgrip, handhold, handshake |
| Antonyms: | release |
| Main Entry: | jerk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a lurching move |
| Synonyms: | bounce, bump, flick, flop, jolt, pull, quake, quiver, shiver, snag, thrust, tug, tweak, twitch, wiggle, wrench, wriggle, yank |
| Main Entry: | jump |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leap |
| Synonyms: | bob, bounce, bound, buck, canter, caper, dance, dive, drop, fall, gambol, hop, hurdle, jar, jerk, jolt, lurch, plummet, plunge, pounce, rise, shock, skip, spring, start, swerve, twitch, upsurge, vault, wrench, capriole, gambade, hopping, leapfrog, leapfrogging, leaping, nosedive, saltation, skipping, upspring |
| Main Entry: | pinch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | press tightly |
| Synonyms: | chafe, compress, confine, cramp, crush, grasp, hurt, nip, pain, squeeze, tweak, twinge, wrench, wrest, wring |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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