wrenched, ppl. a.
(rɛn(t)ʃt, poet. ˈrɛn(t)ʃɪd)
[f. wrench v. + -ed1.]
1. Sprained, strained; dislocated.
| 1556 Withals Dict. (1562) 77 b/2 Wrenched or hurte in the iointes, distortus. 1567 Gresham in Burgon Life (1839) II. 212, I wolde have waited upon you.., but that my wrenched legge would not suffer me. 1684 J. S. Profit & Pleas. United 73 Foot out of Joynt or wrinched Foot. 1872 Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 87 Who never knewest..pang Of wrench'd or broken limb. 1897 A. Page Afternoon Ride 89 Brierly loosed the wrenched wrist. |
b. Twisted, wrung. Also with off. Occas. fig.
| 1894 A. Morrison M. Hewitt Investigator 245 A trap-door..six or eight inches open, the edge resting on the half-wrenched-off bolt. 1908 A. Noyes W. Morris 63 There are wrenched hands and writhen lips in it. 1915 A. Reade Poems Love & War 78 From our tears..and wrenchèd hearts, Let some fair harvest spring. |
2. Pros. (See quot.)
| 1891 J. C. Parsons Engl. Versif. 144 Wrenched Accent.—This term is used when the metrical stress is thrown upon a syllable which would not ordinarily be accented. |