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wrick

wrick verb: to twist; turn.

Verb

wrick (third-person singular simple present wricks, present participle wricking, simple past and past participle wricked)

  1. (dialectal) To twist; turn
  2. (dialectal) To wrench; strain

Noun

wrick (plural wricks)

  1. A painful muscular spasm in the neck or back
    Synonyms:
    crick

wrick meaning in Urdu

wrick in Urdu

موچ, مروڑنا, موچ دینا, موڑنا

Synonyms of wrick

Forms of wrick

Verb
third-person singular presentwricks
present participlewricking
past participlewricked
pastwricked
Noun
pluralwricks

Origin of wrick

From Middle English wricken, probably from Middle Dutch wricken (Modern Dutch wrikken (“to wriggle”)) or Middle Low German wricken (“to move jerkily; sprain”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to turn, wrap, tie”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). See also Low German wriggen, German Low German wricken (“to row; scull; move back and forth”)). Compare also Danish vrikke (“to move; turn; wriggle”), Swedish vricka (“to sprain; twist; scull”).

Questions about wrick

What does wrick mean?
Wrick means to twist; turn.
What is wrick in Urdu?
Wrick in Urdu is موچ, مروڑنا, موچ دینا. See Wrick meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is wrick?
Wrick can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of wrick?
The past tense of wrick is wricked.

Words near wrick in the dictionary

  1. Wrexhamites
  2. WRI
  3. Wrice
  4. WRICEF
  5. Wrices
  6. wrick
  7. wricked
  8. wricking
  9. wricks
  10. wride
  11. wrides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wrick (page history and authors); wrick (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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