📖 Definitions of "Wring"
noun
- 1
A powerful squeezing or twisting action.
"I grasped his hand and gave it a grateful wring."
- 2
Pain or distress.
verb
- 1
To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out.
"I didn’t have a towel so I just wrung my hair dry."
- 2
To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it.
"Put the berries into a cheesecloth and wring the juice into a bowl."
- 3
To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force.
- 4
To draw (something from or out of someone); to generate (something) as a response.
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