'Wring' definitions:
Definition of 'wring'
From: WordNet
noun
A twisting squeeze; "gave the wet cloth a wring" [syn: squeeze, wring]
verb
verb
Twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand" [syn: wring, wrench]
verb
Obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him" [syn: extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wring]
verb
Twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid; "wring the towels"
Definition of 'Wring'
From: GCIDE
- Wring \Wring\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrung, Obs. Wringed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wringing.] [OE. wringen, AS. wringan; akin to LG. & D. wringen, OHG. ringan to struggle, G. ringen, Sw. vr[aum]nga to distort, Dan. vringle to twist. Cf. Wrangle, Wrench, Wrong.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing. "Earnestly wringing Waverley's hand." --Sir W. Scott. "Wring him by the nose." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- [His steed] so sweat that men might him wring. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- The king began to find where his shoe did wring him. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- The priest shall bring it [a dove] unto the altar, and wring off his head. --Lev. i. 15. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture. [1913 Webster]
- Too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- Didst thou taste but half the griefs That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To distort; to pervert; to wrest. [1913 Webster]
- How dare men thus wring the Scriptures? --Whitgift. [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Your overkindness doth wring tears from me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece. --Judg. vi. 38. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance. [1913 Webster]
- To wring the widow from her 'customed right. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The merchant adventures have been often wronged and wringed to the quick. --Hayward. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Naut.) To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wring'
From: GCIDE
- Wring \Wring\, v. i. To writhe; to twist, as with anguish. [1913 Webster]
- 'T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Look where the sister of the king of France Sits wringing of her hands, and beats her breast. --Marlowe. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wring'
From: GCIDE
- Wring \Wring\, n. A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wring'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- afflict,
- agonize,
- ail,
- anamorphism,
- anamorphosis,
- asymmetry,
- badger,
- bend,
- bite,
- blackmail,
- bloody,
- buckle,
- burn,
- chafe,
- claim,
- claw,
- concentrate,
- contort,
- contortion,
- convulse,
- corkscrew,
- crinkle,
- crook,
- crookedness,
- crucify,
- crumple,
- cut,
- decoct,
- demand,
- detorsion,
- deviation,
- disproportion,
- distill,
- distort,
- distortion,
- distress,
- essentialize,
- exact,
- exaction,
- excruciate,
- express,
- extort,
- extortion,
- fester,
- force from,
- fret,
- gall,
- give pain,
- gnarl,
- gnaw,
- gouge,
- grate,
- grind,
- gripe,
- harrow,
- hurt,
- imbalance,
- impale,
- inflame,
- inflict pain,
- infuse,
- intort,
- irregularity,
- irritate,
- kill by inches,
- knot,
- lacerate,
- lancinate,
- levy blackmail,
- lopsidedness,
- macerate,
- martyr,
- martyrize,
- meander,
- melt down,
- nip,
- pain,
- pierce,
- pinch,
- press,
- press out,
- prick,
- prolong the agony,
- pry loose from,
- punish,
- put to torture,
- quirk,
- rack,
- rankle,
- rasp,
- refine,
- rend,
- rend from,
- render,
- rending,
- rip,
- rip from,
- ripping,
- rub,
- savage,
- scallop,
- scarify,
- screw,
- serpentine,
- shake down,
- slink,
- snake,
- snatch from,
- soak,
- spring,
- squeeze,
- stab,
- steep,
- sting,
- swirl,
- tear from,
- tearing,
- torment,
- torsion,
- tortuosity,
- torture,
- try,
- turn,
- turn awry,
- tweak,
- twine,
- twirl,
- twist,
- twist and turn,
- unsymmetry,
- warp,
- whirl,
- whorl,
- wind,
- worm,
- wound,
- wrench,
- wrench from,
- wrenching,
- wrest,
- wresting,
- wring from,
- wring out,
- wringing,
- writhe,
- wry