noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flick of the wrist
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With a flick of the wrist , Frye sent the ball into the opposite court.
slit your wrists (= try to kill yourself by cutting your wrists )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
broken
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Several stitches at the edge of her eye, and a broken wrist .
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He escaped with just a broken wrist and is recovering in Wolverhampton Manor Hospital.
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The broken wrist happened in the warm up before the Sheff Utd game.
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The university's list of injuries also includes a suspected broken wrist .
left
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Left forearm rotation should not be confused with left wrist rotation, as to many amateurs think.
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Plummer, who had appeared in 133 straight regular-season games, broke his left wrist in the first exhibition game last month.
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With that dulled little blade in his right hand, he began drawing it slowly across the inside of his left wrist .
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In fact, Alou was scratched because he jammed his left wrist the night before trying to catch a home-run ball.
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She rushed into the kitchen, gripping her left wrist with her right hand.
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He got plenty of help from Hill, who missed 61 games because of a horrible-looking fracture to his left wrist .
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His right and left wrist were the worst affected and his body rejected the metal plates and wires inserted into them.
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Her primary problem at the moment is tendinitis in her left wrist .
right
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He wondered, too, whether the man would be willing to unlock the handcuff that chafed away at his right wrist .
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Ratliff has been on the injured list since Feb. 13 with a fractured right wrist .
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An old-fashioned analogue watch and a chunky bracelet on the right wrist might be observed through half-closed lids.
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He took my right wrist and pressed his thumb tightly against my pulse and then spoke a sentence.
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His right and left wrist were the worst affected and his body rejected the metal plates and wires inserted into them.
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Ryan Klesko sat Wednesday, his smoldering bat idled by a sore right wrist .
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Hamman had stood back then, and held up the tattoo above his right wrist .
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He stood in the doorway holding the thirty-eight in his right hand, with his left hand grasping his right wrist .
■ NOUN
injury
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His previous appearance in the final came against Peter Sampras, when he was forced to retire with a wrist injury .
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Chanda Rubin withdrew from Wimbledon after struggling much of the season with a wrist injury .
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A wrist injury is such a difficult injury in shot-putting.
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Since Glenallen Hill went down with his wrist injury , the Giants have been suffering a power shortage.
watch
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He'd then take off his wrist watch and put it where he could see it as he talked.
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She stands there tapping that thermometer against her wrist watch , eyes whirring while she tries to gauge this new man.
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These classic ladies' wrist watches have a teardrop-shaped face and a delicate bracelet to grace your wrist.
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Wycliffe lifted out a man's wrist watch and a little wad of letters still in their envelopes and bearing foreign stamps.
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Sandra was presented with a gold wrist watch and Malcolm with a pocket watch by general manager Ken Burkinshaw.
■ VERB
break
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They stuffed a sock into her mouth, pushed her inside and kicked her to the floor breaking her ankle and wrist .
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Plummer, who had appeared in 133 straight regular-season games, broke his left wrist in the first exhibition game last month.
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It was so hard and stiff that I was frightened I would break the wrist .
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Plummer, who suffered a broken left wrist , is expected to be out until at least early in the regular season.
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She broke her wrist and was off work for 4 weeks.
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In 1994, they had to withdraw after Roca broke her wrist in a fluke warmup collision.
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So what if you break a wrist .
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Kaplan is playing limited minutes as she recovers from a broken left wrist .
catch
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Two men appeared in front of him, and he caught her wrist and jerked her to one side, raising his sword.
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Suddenly, before she knew what was happening, he lunged forward and caught her wrist .
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She kicked out, catching him on the wrist .
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He caught Jehana's wrist and dragged her in pursuit of Jotan and Arkhina.
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He caught the man's wrist , smashed the useless Uzi at the oval streaked face set in the black rubber cowl.
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He caught Siban's wrist and held it immobile.
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Damian caught her wrist , flicked her hard against him.
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He caught hold of her wrist .
cut
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When I cut my wrists it was night and I made no attempt to get the staff.
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Then the Minneapolis librarian cut her wrists , but chose against death and summoned help.
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And what was it that had compelled her to cut her wrists ?
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They take pills, they cut their wrists , they stick a pistol in their mouth.
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The first, and by far the largest group, is made up of those who cut their wrists and arms.
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He also was shot at, chased by robbers and had to stop to save a woman who had cut her wrists .
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Was she so close to Dempster, or the baby for that matter, and so depressed she'd cut her wrists ?
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He cut his wrists and bled to death.
flick
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He flicked his wrist and sent it cracking high over Luke's prostrate body.
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Luke took a few steps forward, then flicking his wrist , sent the lash out at waist-level.
grab
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For a moment she feared he would simply step over, grab her wrist , pull out the money.
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She got up, tears streaming from her eyes as he grabbed her trembling wrist and put the bracelet on her.
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I grabbed his wrist and broke it, spinning him round and holding him up.
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We were still talking and laughing when she grabbed both my wrists and dug in.
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He grabbed her wrist , and spun her back to face him.
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He hesitated, then grabbed her wrist and twisted it so that she screamed again and the knife dropped.
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I grabbed his wrist , twisting the hand away from my face.
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A cop grabbed my wrist and handy-helped me into the street.
grasp
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A hand shot out and grasped her wrist .
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He stood in the doorway holding the thirty-eight in his right hand, with his left hand grasping his right wrist .
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They had grasped her by the wrists and feet and dragged her to the neighbouring room.
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Suddenly he leaned forward across the table and grasped my wrist .
grip
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One thin white hand gripped his wrist so hard that he yelped.
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Donald Stewart the blacksmith had to grip his wrist to make him sign the paper.
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She rushed into the kitchen, gripping her left wrist with her right hand.
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Before he could head off for the dustbin, Elinor gripped his wrist firmly.
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The door opened, and he gripped her wrist and pulled her through.
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Of a sudden Lexandro's free hand gripped Valence's wrist with a power which would have crushed any ordinary bones.
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Pike was talking to a waitress and gripping her wrist very tightly.
hold
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She ran the water out of the basin and held her wrists under the cold tap until they were numb.
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His fingers overlapped as if he were holding her wrist instead.
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I stood behind her, holding her wrist as I showed her how.
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He caught her easily, holding both wrists in one hand and bringing her hard against him.
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I held her by her wrists to keep her delicate fingers out of my pockets.
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He held my wrists in one hand as easily as a bunch of flowers and I was pinned beneath his bulk.
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A monster eating a child does not just gnaw its head, but holds its wrists to stop it wriggling.
leave
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Plummer, who suffered a broken left wrist , is expected to be out until at least early in the regular season.
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Moises Alou: still on the bench with a jammed left wrist .
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Kaplan is playing limited minutes as she recovers from a broken left wrist .
rub
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Then she rubbed her wrists and her forehead with a cologne stick.
seize
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As he struck she seized his wrist .
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Rohmer seized his wrist and with apparent ease, twisted.
slap
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Some one, somewhere, must speak for golf - and maybe slap a few wrists .
slash
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Her threshold for anger and frustration was low and she had once slashed her wrist .
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Rather than betray the others, Stockdale broke a window and slashed his wrists with a jagged shard of glass.
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She had made determined attempts at suicide by slashing her wrists several times.
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On Dec. 30, he attacked Heidi with a broken wine bottle, slashing her right wrist .
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Last December, he took a drugs overdose and in September slashed his wrists and groin with a smuggled razor blade.
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Mr Jamshidi has recently left hospital after slashing his wrists in his own suicide attempt.
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On other occasions he had taken a drugs overdose and slashed his wrists .
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In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists .
slit
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It couldn't be Emma, could it, with some ghastly news about Cindy Hill slitting her wrists or something?
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Before I knew what I was doing I was slitting my wrists .
sprain
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Once the sweeping machinery fell over and I sprained my wrist .
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Now we get rocks when we have indigestion or a sprained wrist .
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More than one of our officers sprained his wrist on that job.
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Mark Price sat out the game with a sprained right wrist .
tie
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The ropes should be around three to four feet long and first get your helper to tie it around your wrists .
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When she refused, the attacker grabbed her hair, slapped her and tied her wrists together.
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Like the male her hands were tied at the wrists as they lay on her stomach.
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But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience.
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The diagram represents two people each with a loop of rope tied round their wrists and linked together.
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You tie his hands and wrists together.
twist
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My hands needed to stay still, with my wrists twisting up and down after each stroke to flatten out the oars.
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He hesitated, then grabbed her wrist and twisted it so that she screamed again and the knife dropped.
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I grabbed his wrist , twisting the hand away from my face.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a slap on the wrist
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In the past, officers who mistreated prisoners often received a mere slap on the wrist.
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The fine was so low, it was little more than a slap on the wrist.
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So instead of a slap on the wrist I got promoted to high-flying executive symptoms.
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They just gave him a slap on the wrist then and that enabled him to go out and kill my husband.
slash your wrists
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Four other suicide attempts, including slashing her wrists with a razor blade, were also detailed.
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In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists.
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Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade.
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Last December, he took a drugs overdose and in September slashed his wrists and groin with a smuggled razor blade.
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Mr Jamshidi has recently left hospital after slashing his wrists in his own suicide attempt.
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On other occasions he had taken a drugs overdose and slashed his wrists.
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Rather than betray the others, Stockdale broke a window and slashed his wrists with a jagged shard of glass.
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She had made determined attempts at suicide by slashing her wrists several times.
twist your ankle/wrist/knee
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As he fell, he twisted his ankle.
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Harriet slipped on the stairs and twisted her ankle.
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If I had twisted my ankle, would people be making such a big deal of it?
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One morning as she was rushing back to the changing rooms one of the models slipped and twisted her ankle.
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She twisted her ankle while getting off the lift and had made the long trip down in pain.
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Twice in the morning he left the field, limping and in pain after twisting his knee.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gingerly, Jack took his stepfather's wrist and felt the light fluttering of his pulse.
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Her threshold for anger and frustration was low and she had once slashed her wrist .
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Left forearm rotation should not be confused with left wrist rotation, as to many amateurs think.
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On her right wrist , just above her glove, a white oval of skin was exposed to the air.
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The cubby is also a perfect padded rest for wrist curls.
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The unlocked handcuffs dangling from his wrist dragged along the ground as he was lifted into the wagon.
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Then tie the rope around her wrists.
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We each attach a bracelet to our wrist then press the palm of our other hand on to the metal pad.