WRENCHED Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

wrenched

verb

past tense of wrench

as in pulled

to move by or as if by a forceful rotation with one last sharp yank, he wrenched the lid off the bottle of ketchup

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as in damaged

to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure wrenched her shoulder by all of that heavy lifting

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as in yanked

to separate or remove by forceful pulling wrenched the post out of the ground

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reattached

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Recent Examples of wrenched Henley wrenched away from her mother's grip, turned, and darted up the stairs again, leaving Emily and Kate in startled silence. —

Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026 As the plane twisted upward, the air pressure wrenched off another tail fin. —

Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 Experts believe the crown’s flexible mount was strained when thieves wrenched it from its display through a narrow slot cut by the angle grinder, according to a report by the Louvre. —

Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026 And yet so much of the film community’s focus has been wrenched out of the past into an urgent present and uncertain future. —

Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026 In a moment when even humanitarian work around these regions can be wrenched by bad-faith political agendas, Mustafa’s framing of the purpose of Saturday’s show was savvy and measured. —

Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026 And Ahmed al-Ahmed, who came to Australia from Syria in 2006, a former policeman who now owns a fruit stand at Bondi Beach, tackled one of the gunmen and wrenched the rifle from him, even as he was wounded himself. —

Scott Simon, NPR, 20 Dec. 2025 The man then tackled the shooter and wrenched the gun away from him. —

Anders Hagstrom , Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 14 Dec. 2025 In the video, one officer wrenched the bathroom door open. —

Idaho Statesman, 14 Nov. 2025

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Verb

In a lot of cases, Earth’s gravity probably captured these objects and pulled them in, adding them to its growing bulk.

— Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 17 June 2026
The Telegraph reports that the artist pulled a Russian flag from his pants and threw it in a trash can.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 17 June 2026