wring

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1. wring - Noun

2. wring - Verb

Meaning

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

Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.

To distort; to pervert; to wrest.

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.

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

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

To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.

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

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O woman in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. Walter Scott

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are. S. J. Perelman

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. Gerard Manley Hopkins

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. Anne Rice

It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck. Graham Greene

It is better to leave the child's nose dirty than wring it off. French Proverb

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