wring : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: wring	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for wring
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wring n a twisting squeeze; "gave the wet cloth a wring" [syn: squeeze, wring] v twist and press out of shape [syn: contort, deform, distort, wring] twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand" Synonym(s): wring, wrench 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" Synonym(s): extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wring twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid; "wring the towels"
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[84]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. [bd]Earnestly wringing Waverley's hand.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. [bd]Wring him by the nose.[b8] --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 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.