Sekirov Dictionary

wring

/ɹɪŋ/

verb 26
noun 4
forms 7
phrases 1

verb26

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Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out.
- I didn’t have a towel so I just wrung my hair dry.
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To squeeze water (from an item of wet clothing) by passing through a wringer.
- “I feel I’ve been wrung through a wringer,” Maggie said. — 1988
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Often followed by from or out: to extract (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing, twisting, or otherwise putting pressure on it.
- Put the berries into a cheesecloth and wring the juice into a bowl.
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To hold (someone or something) tightly and press or twist; to wrest.
- And some I vysyte with brennynge of fyre; / Of some I wrynge of the necke lyke a wyre; […] — 1530
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To clasp and twist (hands) together due to distress, sorrow, etc.
- to wring one’s hands with worry
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To bend or strain (something) out of its position; to wrench, to wrest.
- Why, he wrong a club / Once in a fray out of the hande of Belzebub. — 1552
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To be engaged in clasping and twisting (especially the hands), or exerting pressure.
- Go wash well, saith Sommer, with sunne I shall drie, / go wring well, saith Winter, with winde so shall I. — 1878
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(figurative) To cause (tears) to come out from a person or their eyes.
- The gripe of chaunce is vveake, to vvring a teare, / From him that knovves vvhat fortitude should beare. — 1600
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(figurative) To obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by extortion or other force.
- The police said they would wring the truth out of that criminal.
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(figurative) To use effort to draw (a response, words, etc.) from or out of someone; to generate (something) as a response.
- O noble sir! / Your ouer kindnesse doth vvring teares from me, […] — 1598
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Of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch or press (a person or part of their body), causing pain.
- Myselfe can tell best where my shooe doth wring mee. — 1546
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(figurative) To cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart, soul, etc.); to distress, to torment.
- Oh Portius, didst thou taste but half the Griefs / That wring my Soul, thou cou’dst not talk thus coldly, […] — 1712
(figurative) To experience distress, pain, punishment, etc.
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To contort or screw up (the face or its features).
- Then would I laugh to see my lady pout, / And smyle when most she wroung her mouth awry; […] — 1576
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To twist the body in or as if in pain; to writhe.
- No, no, tis all mens office to speake patience / To those that vvring vnder the loade of sorrovv […] — 1598
(figurative) To contend, to struggle; also, to strive, to toil.
To twist or wind (something) into coils; to coil.
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To slide (two ultraflat surfaces) together such that their faces bond.
- The number of optical wringing procedures performed for each gauge block was five, and the number of measurements for each wringing procedure was eleven. — 1997
Of a lode: to be depleted of ore; to peter or peter out.
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(dialect, no longer used) To cause (someone or something) physical harm, injury, or pain; specifically, by applying pressure or by twisting; to harm, to hurt, to injure.
- A Lorde God, howe the gowte wryngeth me by the too! — 1530
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(figurative, no longer used) To afflict or oppress (someone) to enforce compliance; to extort.
- VVho can be bound by any solemne Vovv[…] To vvring the VViddovv from her custom’d right, And have no other reason for this vvrong, But that he vvas bound by a solemne Oath? — 1591
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(figurative, no longer used) To cause (someone) to do something or to think a certain way.
- For men be so parciall alway to theim selfe, that our hart euer thinketh the iudgement wrong, that wringeth vs to the worse. — 1528
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(figurative, no longer used) To give (teachings, words, etc.) an incorrect meaning; to twist, to wrest.
- Lord, how dare these men thus wring the scriptures? — 1572
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[with oneself] (figurative, no longer used) To put (oneself) in a position by cunning or subtle means; to insinuate.
- VVe vvring our selues into this vvretched vvorld, / To pule, and vveepe, exclaime, to curse and raile, / To fret, and ban the fates, to strike the earth / As I doe novv. — 1599
(figurative, no longer used) To change (something) into another thing.
(no longer used) To make a way out with difficulty.

noun4

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A powerful squeezing or twisting action.
- I grasped his hand and gave it a grateful wring.
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(old-fashioned) Followed by down: the product of wringing, such as cider or wine.
- She had just got off her mare to look at the last wring-down of cider for the year; […] — 1874
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(no longer used) A device for compressing or pressing, especially for making cheese, cider from apples, or wine from grapes.
- They tossed and turned on their little beds, and the cheese-wring dripped monotonously downstairs. — 1891
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(no longer used) A sharp physical pain, especially in the abdomen; also, mental pain or distress.
- Hens dung svvallovved [by a horse] by hap, bringeth frets and vvrings in the bellie: […] — 1606

forms

wrang · wringed · wrung · wringing · wringeth · wrings · wringest

Phrases with wring

wring out
To squeeze (wet clothing or cloth), either by twisting with one's hands, or by passing it through a wringer, to remove the water.

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