The Collaborative International Dictionary
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["a]nga to distort, Dan. vringle to twist. Cf. Wrangle, Wrench, Wrong.]
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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.[His steed] so sweat that men might him wring.
--Chaucer.The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.
--Bacon.The priest shall bring it [a dove] unto the altar, and wring off his head.
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Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
Too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune.
--Clarendon.Didst thou taste but half the griefs That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly.
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To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
How dare men thus wring the Scriptures?
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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.
Your overkindness doth wring tears from me.
--Shak.He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece.
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To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
To wring the widow from her 'customed right.
--Shak.The merchant adventures have been often wronged and wringed to the quick.
--Hayward. (Naut.) To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.
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vb. (en-past of: wring)
Usage examples of "wringed".
But, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth'.