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rench

rench is the alternative form of rinse.

rench is the obsolete form of wrench.

Meaning of rinse

Verb

rinse (third-person singular simple present rinses, present participle rinsing, simple past and past participle rinsed)

  1. (transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
    • You'd better rinse that stain before putting the shirt in the washing machine.
  2. (transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water.
    • Rinse the dishes after you wash them.
  3. (transitive) To drink and hangout with friends.
    • Let's Rinse later tonight at my house.
  4. (transitive) To swish (a liquid) around the inside of something.
    • Oscar uncapped his beer, rinsed the first mouthful around.1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 51
  5. (UK, slang) To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
    • You got rinsed.

See all 8 meanings of rinse

Meaning of wrench

Verb

wrench (third-person singular simple present wrenches, present participle wrenching, simple past and past participle wrenched)

  1. (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
    • With a surge of adrenaline, she wrenched the car door off and pulled out the injured man.
  2. (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
    • Be careful not to wrench your ankle walking along those loose stones!
  3. (transitive) To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent.
  4. (transitive) To rack with pain; to make hurt or distressed.
    • And what actinic, mind-wrenching form could the countermeme take? How could human hands assemble something so devastatingly powerful and hold it steady; what human mind could wield it without exploding from the inside out?2019 December 9, qntm, “Wild Light”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 191
  5. (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
  6. (transitive) To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench.
    • The plumber wrenched the pipes until they came loose.

See all 25 meanings of wrench

Questions about rench

What is rench the alternative form of?
Rench is the alternative form of rinse.

Words near rench in the dictionary

  1. renayed
  2. renaying
  3. renays
  4. renban line
  5. renban lines
  6. rench
  7. Renchen
  8. Rencher
  9. Renchers
  10. rencontre
  11. Rencontre East

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rench (page history and authors); rinse (page history and authors); wrench (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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