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wrenching
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intensely or unbearably painful
- forced to make the emotionally wrenching decision to place her mother in a nursing home
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wrenching
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a forceful rotating or pulling motion for the purpose of dislodging something
- after a lot of wrenching and tugging, the plumber managed to pull the stubborn pipe free
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1
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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to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure
- wrenched her shoulder by all of that heavy lifting
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to separate or remove by forceful pulling
- wrenched the post out of the ground
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