Definitions for wring
rɪŋwring

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. squeeze, wringverb

   a twisting squeeze

   "gave the wet cloth a wring"

2. contort, deform, distort, wringverb

   twist and press out of shape

3. wring, wrenchverb

   twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish

   "Wring one's hand"

4. extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wringverb

   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"

5. wringverb

   twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid

   "wring the towels"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wringverb

   To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.

   You must wring your wet jeans before hanging them out to dry.

2. wringverb

   To obtain by force.

   The police said they would wring the truth out of that heinous criminal.

3. wringverb

   To hold tightly and press or twist.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To WRINGverb

   preter. and part. pass. wringed and wrung.

   Etymology: wringan , Saxon.

   1. To twist; to turn round with violence.

   The priest shall wring off his head, and burn it on the altar. Lev. i. 15.

   2. To force out of any body by contortion.

   He thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of it, a bowl full of water. Judg. vi. 38.

   The dregs all the wicked shall wring out and drink. Ps. lxxv.

   The figure of a sturdy woman, done by Michael Angelo, washing and winding of linen cloths; in which act she wrings out the water that made the fountain. Henry Wotton.

   Apply mild detergents on pledgets of lint over it, with a compress wrung out. Richard Wiseman.

   3. To squeeze; to press.

   In sleep I heard him say, sweet Desdemona,
   Let us be wary, let us hide our loves!
   And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand. William Shakespeare.

   4. To writhe.

   The silly owner of the goods
   Weeps over them, and wrings his hapless hands. William Shakespeare.

   5. To pinch.

   The king began to find where his shoe did wring him, and that it was his depressing the house of York that did rankle and fester the affections of his people. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

   If he had not been too much grieved, and wrung by an uneasy and streight fortune, he would have been an excellent man of business. Edward Hyde.

   6. To force by violence; to extort.

   I had rather coin my heart,
   And drop my blood for drachma’s, than to wring
   From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash
   By any indirection. William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar.

   Who can be bound by any solemn vow
   To wring the widow from her custom’d right,
   And have no other reason for his wrong,
   But that he was bound by a solemn oath? William Shakespeare, Hen. VI.

   That which I must speak,
   Must either punish me, not being believ’d,
   Or wring redress from you. William Shakespeare, Meas. for Measure.

   Thirty spies,
   Threatening cruel death, constrain’d the bride
   To wring from me, and tell to them my secret. John Milton.

   7. To harrass; to distress; to torture.

   He dives into the king’s soul, and there scatters
   Doubts, dangers, wringing of the conscience,
   Fear and despair, and all these for his marriage. William Shakespeare.

   Pleasure enchants, impetuous rage transports,
   And grief dejects and wrings the tortur’d soul. Wentworth Dillon.

   Did’st thou taste but half the griefs
   That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly. Add.

   8. To distort; to turn to a wrong purpose.

   To wring this sentence, to wrest thereby out of men’s hands the knowledge of God’s doctrine, is without all reason. Roger Ascham, Schoolmaster.

   Lord, how dare these men thus wring the scriptures? John Whitgift.

   9. To persecute with extortion.

   The merchant-adventurers have been often wronged and wringed to the quick; but were never quick and lively in thanks to those by whose endeavours they were freed. John Hayward.

2. To Wringverb

   To writhe with anguish.

   ’Tis all men’s office to speak patience
   To those that wring under the load of sorrow;
   But no man’s virtue nor sufficiency,
   To be so moral, when he shall endure
   The like himself. William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wring

   To wring means to twist, squeeze, or compress forcefully, often to extract liquid from something. It can also mean to extract or obtain something with difficulty or to cause someone to feel severe emotional distress.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wringverb

   to twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing

2. Wringverb

   hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture

3. Wringverb

   to distort; to pervert; to wrest

4. Wringverb

   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

5. Wringverb

   to subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance

6. Wringverb

   to bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast

7. Wringverb

   to writhe; to twist, as with anguish

8. Wringnoun

   a writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping

9. Etymology: [OE. wringen, AS. wringan; akin to LG. & D. wringen, OHG. ringan to struggle, G. ringen, Sw. vrnga to distort, Dan. vringle to twist. Cf. Wrangle, Wrench, Wrong.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wring

   ring, v.t. to twist: to force, or force out, by twisting: to force or compress: to pain: to extort: to bend out of its position.—v.i. to writhe: to twist:—pa.t. and pa.p. wrung, (B.) wringed.—ns. Wring′-bolt, a bolt with a ring or eye, used to secure a ship's planks against the frame till they are permanently fixed in place; Wring′er, one who wrings: a machine for forcing water from wet clothes—also Wring′ing-machine′.—adj. Wring′ing-wet, so wet that water can be wrung out.—n.pl. Wring′-staves, strong pieces of wood used in applying wring-bolts.—Wring from, to extort; Wring off, to force off by wringing; Wring out, to squeeze out by twisting; Wring the hands, to manifest grief by convulsive clasping of the hands. [A.S. wringan, to twist; Dut. wringen, Ger. ringen. Cf. Wreak, Wry.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WRING

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wring is ranked #93513 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Wring surname appeared 196 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Wring.
   
   69.9% or 137 total occurrences were White.
   25% or 49 total occurrences were Black.
   2.5% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.5% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

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   • Squeeze
   • Twist

How to pronounce wring?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wring in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wring in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of wring in a Sentence

1. George Sand:

   It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.

2. Nick Papageorge:

   We need to understand these differences because we can wring our hands, and we can blame and shame, but in a way it doesn’t matter, policymakers just need to recognize who is going to socially distance, for how long, why and under what circumstances to give us accurate predictions of how the disease will spread and help us establish policies that will be useful.

3. Mitch Landrieu:

   The President says,' Look, I can't sit in my office and turn a dial and move gas down. I can't sit in my office and move inflation,' but what I can do is ask Congress and my team to help me reduce everybody's cost in other areas and wring efficiencies out of the system. That's where the infrastructure bill comes into play.

4. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

   You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! -- and that! -- and that! -- and that!

5. Joseph Dunford:

   So, I think for all of us, we should give Secretary Tillerson full support in attempting to resolve this diplomatically and economically, even as we recognize that it may not happen, and there may have to be a follow-up option, which is the military option, we can wring our hands and say it will never happen, or we can roll up our sleeves and make an effort to have a concerted economic and diplomatic plan that does cause KJU, Kim Jong Un, to come to the table and begin to have a conversation, at least stop the path that he’s on right now, which is further development of intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear capability. And to me it makes all the sense in the world to prove the theory of the case and to work this for a few more months.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wring
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wring
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=wring
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wring
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=wring
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html