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Wring

verb

(past & past part. wrung, obs. wringed; pres. part. wringing)

Twist and press out of shape. Synonyms: contort, deform, distort.

Twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish. Synonym: wrench.

Obtain by coercion or intimidation. Synonyms: extort, gouge, rack, squeeze. "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"

Twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid.

noun

A twisting squeeze. Synonym: squeeze.

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"Wring" Quotes from Famous Books

... that noise," said Bott, who was kicking violently at the door, but could not break it down. "Shut up, or I'll wring your neck." ...

— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay

... "'in our hours of ease'—that's now, Major, so far as we're concerned—'uncertain, coy, and hard to please.' That's what Miss King ought to have been, but wasn't. Nobody can say she was coy about the lobsters. 'When pain and anguish wring the brow.' That's the position in which Simpkins finds himself. 'A ministering angel thou.' That's what Miss King should be if she's what I call a true woman, a womanly woman. But she evidently isn't. She hasn't the maternal instinct at all strongly developed. If she had, her ...

— The Simpkins Plot • George A. Birmingham

... chased us, by dint of good management. As for eating or drinking, the first was out of the question; though we began to make some little provision to slake our thirst, by exposing our handkerchiefs to the drizzle, in order to wring them when they should become saturated with water. The coolness of the weather, however, and the mist, contributed to prevent our suffering much, and I do not know that I felt any great desire for either food or water, until towards the middle of the day. Then ...

— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper

... needn't see him again before he leaves..." At that moment the possibility of having to look in Darrow's face and hear him speak seemed to her more unendurable than anything else she could imagine. Then, on the next wave of feeling, came the desire to confront him at once and wring from him she knew not what: avowal, denial, justification, anything that should open some channel of escape to the ...

— The Reef • Edith Wharton

... through, when he stepped on a slippery stone and sat down in the water and made the fellows laugh. But they acted first-rate with him when they got across; they helped him to take off his trousers and wring them out, and they wrung them so hard that they tore them a little, but they were a little torn already; and they wrung them so dry that he said they felt splendid when he got them on again. One of his feet went through the side of the trouser leg that was torn before it got ...

— The Flight of Pony Baker - A Boy's Town Story • W. D. Howells

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