Dictionary entry

Wrench

Pronunciation: /rɛn(t)ʃ/

Pronunciation

/rɛn(t)ʃ/

Myanmar Meaning

အားနှင့် လိမ်ဖဲ့ခြင်း။

Definition

wrench /rentʃ/ v ၁။ ~ sth off (sth); ~ sb/ sth away တအားဆြဲျဖဳတ္သည္။ တအားေဆာင့္ဆြဲသည္။ လိမ္ခ်ဳိးသည္။ wrench a door off its hinges ❍ I wrenched my arm away. ❍ wrench the door open ❍ He managed to wrench himself free. ၂။ အဆစ္လြဲသည္၊ မ်က္သည္။ She must have wrenched her knee when she fell. n ၁။ [C usu sing ] ေဆာင့္ဆြဲျခင္း။ လိမ္ခ်ဳိးျခင္း။ အဆစ္လြဲျခင္း။ She stumbled and gave her ankle a painful wrench. ၂။ [sing] ဝမ္းနည္းေၾကကြဲစရာ ခြဲခြာမႈ။ Leaving home was a terrible wrench for me. ၃။ [C] ခြရွင္။ See also MONKEY WRENCH

Examples

  1. ‘Most sprains happen from a sudden wrench or twist.’
  2. ‘Jo steeled herself
  3. and with an almighty wrench pulled her legs free of Morgan's vice-like grip.’
  4. ‘It is a bit plasticky inside
  5. not helped by the rather dull colours used for the interior trim
  6. but none of the seemingly ill-designed fittings actually came apart of their own accord
  7. only after being given a hard wrench.’
  8. ‘A sharp wrench to my shoulder and Jonathan forcibly pulling me to my feet shocked me.’
  9. ‘I may venture to say
  10. loosely
  11. that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist
  12. wrench
  13. pull
  14. push or bend.’
  15. ‘He ordered a loaf
  16. watched as she slipped it into a bag
  17. twisting the top with a wrench of her wrist.’
  18. ‘Although Jay admits it was a wrench leaving her family she is hoping to be joined by husband Sino
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  20. who works for an Indian shipping company and their five-year-old daughter Neha in the spring.’
  21. ‘And with a sudden wrench inside of his heart
  22. Ark realised that his friend was gone.’
  23. ‘It must be a big wrench for him and the supporters to have a home-bred player leave the club.’
  24. ‘The area
  25. on the edge of the Dales
  26. has much to commend it to Dr Hope
  27. and the move from York should not prove too much of a wrench.’
  28. ‘Fernandez
  29. who lives in Edinburgh with his wife
  30. Ximena
  31. and one-year-old daughter
  32. Judith
  33. is not being diplomatic when he says that it will be a wrench to leave Livingston.’
  34. ‘This is going to be a huge wrench for me
  35. but it is a huge challenge that I'm looking forward to.’
  36. ‘‘It is a wrench but I would probably not be able to represent my constituents with the energy I had before
  37. so it is time someone a bit younger took it on
  38. ’ she said.’
  39. ‘Mr and Mrs Hoban said: ‘This is a big wrench but we cannot support a party that flouts the UN.’’
  40. ‘It will be a bit of a wrench to leave the house the family has had for so long.’
  41. ‘The project is for young people aged 13 to 19 but it is such a wrench for older members to leave that they are trained to become volunteer youth workers and so continue their connection with the project.’
  42. ‘So
  43. as you can imagine
  44. it's a great wrench to be pulling out: I'm emotionally involved now
  45. it's part of me.’
  46. ‘The move was a real wrench
  47. and he feels guilty about it even though everyone has told him he has done the right thing.’
  48. ‘But he and his wife Hillary also face the wrench of leaving behind their three sons
  49. Owen and Daniel
  50. who are in university
  51. and Benjamin
  52. who is still in school.’
  53. ‘Practice manager Sandra Jackson said: ‘We've got a lot of history here and it's really going to be a bit of a wrench
  54. but the new facilities are fantastic.’’