Word Meanings - WRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast. (more info) OHG. ringan to struggle, G. ringen, Sw. vränga to distort, Dan. 1. To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring

Additional info about word: WRING

To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast. (more info) OHG. ringan to struggle, G. ringen, Sw. vränga to distort, Dan. 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. 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 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 ; 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WRING)

• Extort
• Wring
• despoil
• fleece
• exact
• express
• squeeze out
• wrench
• wrest
• extract

Related words: (words related to WRING)

• WRINGING
  a. & n. from Wring, v. Wringing machine, a wringer. See Wringer, 2.
• WREAKEN
  p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.
• WRACK
  A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
• WRANGLE
  An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.
• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• WRECKING
  a. & n. from Wreck, v. Wrecking car , a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision. -- Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• WRENCH
  1. To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence. Wrench his sword from him. Shak. Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woeful agony. Coleridge. 2. To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert. You wrenched your
• WRINKLY
  Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered. G. Eliot. His old wrinkly face grew quite blown out at last. Carlyle.
• WRATHLESS
  Free from anger or wrath. Waller.
• WRATHILY
  In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully.
• WRYNESS
  The quality or state of being wry, or distorted. W. Montagu.
• WRAPPAGE
  1. The act of wrapping. 2. That which wraps; envelope; covering.
• WROKEN
  p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.
• EXACTLY
  In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• WRAWNESS
  Peevishness; ill temper; anger. Chaucer.
• BEWRAP
  To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.
• UNWRIE
  To uncover. Chaucer.
• WRAP
  To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt. Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves. Beattie.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• OUTLAWRY
  1. The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man is deprived of that protection. 2. The state of being an outlaw.
• TYPEWRITING
  The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• AWRY
  1. Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. "Your crown's awry." Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.