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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wring \Wring\, v. i.
To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.
'T is all men's office to speak patience To those that
wring under the load of sorrow. --Shak.
Look where the sister of the king of France Sits
wringing of her hands, and beats her breast. --Marlowe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wring \Wring\, n.
A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping. [Obs.]
--Bp. Hall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wring
n : a twisting squeeze: "gave the wet cloth a wring" [syn: {squeeze}]
v 1: 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" [syn: {extort}, {rack}, {gouge}]
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