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Wringed

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.]

  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.

    [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.
    --Lev. i. 15.

  2. 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.
    --Addison.

  3. To distort; to pervert; to wrest.

    How dare men thus wring the Scriptures?
    --Whitgift.

  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.

    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.
    --Judg. vi. 38.

  5. 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.

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

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wringed

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'.