ppl. a. [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. Anne 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, 78–9.
| Dear God, let not our passion be in vain, | |
| But from our tears and blood and wrenched 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.
