Wrist - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |rɪst|  American pronunciation of the word wrist
Brit.  |rɪst|  British pronunciation of the word wrist

noun

- a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones (syn: carpus)

Extra examples

She had a gold watch on her wrist.

She hurt her wrist but decided to continue playing.

The ball hit him hard on the wrist.

He caught hold of her wrist.

Her wrist was swollen and tender.

He did 12 wrist curls.

She put perfume on her wrist and sniffed it.

She suffered a wrist fracture when she slipped on the ice.

Her wrist fractured when she fell on the ice.

...with an adroit flick of the wrist, flipped the omelet into the air and landed it squarely back in the pan...

Doctors immobilized her wrist by putting it in a cast.

“No problem,” I dismissed his concerns with a magnanimous flick of the wrist.

...you should press against the artery in your wrist and count the pulsations to calculate your heart rate...

...the impatient toddler got a swat on his wrist for stepping into the street by himself...

A strong hand fastened round her wrist.

Word forms

noun
singular: wrist
plural: wrists
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