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Wreak
- verb - cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area"
Wreck
- noun - a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles); "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"
- a ship that has been destroyed at sea
- an accident that destroys a ship at sea
- Ruin
- smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car"
- something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation; "the house was a wreck when they bought it"; "thanks to that quack I am a human wreck"
Wrens
- noun - any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects
- English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723)
Wrest
- verb - obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically; "wrest the knife from his hands"; "wrest a meaning from the old text"; "wrest power from the old government"
Wrick
- noun -
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
Wrier
- adjective - bent to one side; "a wry neck"
- humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit"
Wring
- noun - a twisting squeeze; "gave the wet cloth a wring"
- obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"
- twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand"
- twist and press out of shape
- twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid; "wring the towels"
Wrist
- noun - a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones
Write
- verb - communicate (with) in writing; "Write her soon, please!"
- communicate by letter; "He wrote that he would be coming soon"
- communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week"
- create code, write a computer program; "She writes code faster than anybody else"
- have (one's written work) issued for publication; "How many books did Georges Simenon write?"; "She published 25 books during her long career"
- mark or trace on a surface; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet"
- produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
- record data on a computer;
- write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
- write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word); "He spelled the word wrong in this letter"
Writs
- noun - (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer