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Wrung

Wrung \Wrung\, imp. & p. p. of Wring.

Wrung

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.

Wiktionary
wrung

vb. (en-past of: wring)

WordNet
wring
  1. n. a twisting squeeze; "gave the wet cloth a wring" [syn: squeeze]

  2. [also: wrung]

wring
  1. v. twist and press out of shape [syn: contort, deform, distort]

  2. twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand" [syn: wrench]

  3. 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]

  4. twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid; "wring the towels"

  5. [also: wrung]

wrung

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Usage examples of "wrung".

Wet to the knees, and wrung wretched with shivering, Fionn Areth cursed the cold rivulets that chased down his boot cuffs and collar.

He worked the rent larger, then wrung off a strip to bind up his dripping sword cut.

Sweating in discomfort, wrung from exhaustion and hunger, Arithon was trained healer enough to persist until the raw tissue was clean.

Elaira braced against the washstand, too wrung with dread to question the price she might pay for unbending self-honesty.

Arithon laid his cheek to iced stone, wrung wretched with shivering relief.

He glanced once at the door still ajar behind him, fair and young and uneasy, his riding gloves wrung between tortured hands.

The dousing eased back some of the hollow uncertainty wrung through her displaced equilibrium.

Light do you think the sorry wretch can accomplish wrung limp as he is with grave injuries?

He wrung what inadequate comfort he could from the fact that only one patrol hounded him.

Sulfin Evend squeezed his eyes shut, too wrung with nerves to close his hand over his sword grip.

They worked in tight partnership, borrowing off the unsteady assistance wrung from a rabbit-scared spellbinder.

Fellowship construct designed to capture and reroute those vast forces, Dakar felt wrung through.

Defeatist thoughts wrung no mercy from the brusque presence of Kharadmon.

Had the breath not been wrung clean out of his lungs, he would have lost hold, all awareness dissolved into shattering screams.

Kharadmon stopped, wrung out a vehement breath, and shook a damp hank of cinnamon hair from the puffy sills of his eyes.