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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

... master,—wherever a child flees from the face of a parent who knows neither justice nor mercy, or a wife goes mad under the secret tyranny of her inevitable fate,—wherever pity and mercy and love veil their faces and wring their hands outside the ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various

... to wring his injured hand, but otherwise considerably recovered, "it was your fault jumping off the table. The beastly stuff goes off almost if you look at it. It's lucky it wasn't all dry, or I might have had ...

— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed

... governor twice, and with good repute; in 1630, Sir John Harvey succeeded the former. He was the champion of monopolists; he would divide the land among a few, and keep the rest in subjection. He fought with the legislature from the first; he could not wring their rights from them, but he distressed and irritated the colony, levying arbitrary fines, and browbeating all and sundry with the brutality of an ungoverned temper. His chief patron was Lord Baltimore, a Roman Catholic, ...

— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne

... flee for his life, while Althea threw herself on the cold ground, moaning and sobbing like a creature mortally hurt. I took her in my arms and raised her up, asking her, all amazed, was that indeed Andrew? but she did nothing but wring her hands and implore me to follow him and fetch him back; and I had much trouble to persuade her that was useless and hopeless for us at that hour of the night. At last she was won to rise and return to the house; and we both found it a difficult matter to get in where ...

— Andrew Golding - A Tale of the Great Plague • Anne E. Keeling

... for the darkening change in his mother's face, and her furious accents. "You stole it?—you STOLE it, you limb! And you sit there and brazenly tell me! Who did you steal it from? Tell me quick, afore I wring it ...

— Tales of Trail and Town • Bret Harte

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