Definition of "wrenched" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of wrench. (verb)

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• "The wretchedness of her expression wrenched his heart, but he made no move toward her."
• "On the prison authorities going to perform the preliminaries for the execution, they found the prisoner armed with a chain wrenched from the wall of his cell, with which he kept them all at bay for a long time, notwithstanding that hartshorn and chloroform were used to overcome him."
• "Yet Microsoft's stock price performance has stagnated these last 10 years, while Apple has soared to its current status as the world's most valuable tech firm, a title wrenched away from Microsoft just last week."