Definition of Wring

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Definition of Wring

Wring

To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.

Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.

To distort; to pervert; to wrest.

To extract or obtain by twisting and compressing; to squeeze or press (out); hence, to extort; to draw forth by violence, or against resistance or repugnance; -- usually with out or form.

To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.

To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.

To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.

A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.

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Wring Quotations

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
Lynn Abbey

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
Anne Rice

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.
Jack Schwartz

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.
Gary Lucas

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
S. J. Perelman

Wring Translations

wring in Dutch is afpersen, afdwingen, knevelen
wring in French is tords, tordons, tordez, tordent
wring in German is wringen, wringe, abbringen
wring in Swedish is vrida ur

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