Wry: Definition and part of speech

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Wry

  1. v. i. To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.
  2. v. t. To cover.
  3. superl. Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.
  4. superl. Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words.
  5. superl. Wrested; perverted.
  6. v. i. To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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