Wring Synonyms & Definitions

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• WringDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
2. (v. t.) To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
3. (v. t.) Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
4. (v. t.) To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.
5. (v. t.) To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.
6. (v. i.) To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.
7. (n.) A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.
8. (v. t.) 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.

• WringerDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.
2. (n.) A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.

• WringboltDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt.

• WringingDefinition & Meaning in English

1. () a. & n. from Wring, v.
2. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wring

• WringedDefinition & Meaning in English

1. () of Wring