wrack | (verb) smash or break forcefully | Synonyms: bust up, wreck |
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wrangle | (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: brawl |
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(verb) herd and care for | - |
wrap | (verb) arrange or fold as a cover or protection | Synonyms: wrap up |
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(verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap |
(verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: roll, twine, wind |
(verb) crash into so as to coil around | - |
wrawl | (verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: howl, yammer, yowl |
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wreak | (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, play, work |
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wreathe | (verb) form into a wreath | Synonyms: wind |
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(verb) decorate or deck with wreaths | - |
(verb) move with slow, sinuous movements | - |
wreck | (verb) smash or break forcefully | Synonyms: bust up, wrack |
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wrench | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrick |
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(verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: twist |
(verb) twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish | Synonyms: wring |
(verb) make a sudden twisting motion | - |
wrest | (verb) obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically | - |
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wrestle | (verb) engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate | - |
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(verb) combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force | - |
(verb) engage in a wrestling match | - |
(verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wriggle, writhe |
wrick | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrench |
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wriggle | (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wrestle, writhe |
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wring | (verb) twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish | Synonyms: wrench |
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(verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, deform, distort |
(verb) twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid | - |
(verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, gouge, rack, squeeze |
wrinkle | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple |
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(verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up |
(verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: purse |
(verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: crease, furrow |
write | (verb) communicate or express by writing | - |
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(verb) record data on a computer | Synonyms: save |
(verb) contact in writing | Synonyms: drop a line |
(verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, indite, pen |
(verb) mark or trace words or symbols on a surface | - |
(verb) write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) | Synonyms: spell |
(verb) write music | Synonyms: compose |
(verb) create code, write a computer program | - |
writhe | (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wrestle, wriggle |
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wrong | (verb) treat unjustly; do wrong to | - |
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