Synonyms of the word

sprain

• n. The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining.
• v. To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain,…

injure

• v. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
• v. (transitive) To damage or impair.
• v. (transitive) To do injustice to.

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

rick

• n. A stack, stook or pile of grain, straw, hay etc., especially as protected with thatching.
• n. (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four…
• v. To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
• v. slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc.
• n. (military, pejorative and demeaning) A brand new (naive) boot camp inductee.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

wound

• n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
• n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
• n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
• v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
• v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.

wrench

• n. (obsolete) A trick or artifice.
• n. (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.
• n. A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
• n. An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
• n. (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.
• n. (archaic) A winch or windlass.
• n. (obsolete) A screw.
• n. A distorting change from the original meaning.
• n. (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes;…
• n. (Britain) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
• n. A violent emotional change caused by separation.
• n. (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of…
• n. (obsolete) means; contrivance.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe.
• v. (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn aside or deflect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To slander.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch.
• v. (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
• v. (transitive) To distort from the original meaning.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
• v. (intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
• v. (transitive) To rack with pain.
• v. (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
• v. (transitive) To use the tool known as a wrench.

wrick

• v. To twist; turn.
• v. To wrench; strain.
• n. A painful muscular spasm in the neck or back.