Wring

What do we mean by wring?

To twist, squeeze, or compress, especially so as to extract liquid. Often used with out. transitive verb

To extract (liquid) by twisting or compressing. Often used with out. transitive verb

To wrench or twist forcibly or painfully. transitive verb

To clasp and twist or squeeze (one's hands), as in distress. transitive verb

To clasp firmly and shake (another's hand), as in congratulation. transitive verb

To cause distress to; affect with painful emotion. transitive verb

To obtain or extract by applying force or pressure. transitive verb

The act or an instance of wringing. noun

A wringer or presser; a wine-press or cider-press. noun

Action expressive of anguish; writhing. noun

To twist in the hands, as something flexible; twist or flex forcibly: as, to wring clothes after washing, to force out the water; to wring a friend's hand in cordial greeting: often with out.

To twist out of place, shape, or relation; bend or strain tortuously or twistingly: as, to wring a mast; to wring the neck of a chicken.

To turn or divert the course or purport of; distort; pervert.

To affect painfully by or as if by some contorting or compressing action or effect; torture; rack; distress; pain.

To force out, as a fluid, by twisting or contorting pressure; extract or obtain by or as if by a squeezing flexure; hence, to squeeze out in any way; extort: as, to wring water from clothes; to wring a reluctant consent from a person: often with out.

To free from a liquid by twisting or compression: as, to wring out clothes.

To writhe; twist about, as with anguish; squirm; suffer torture.

To pinch; pain.

A powerful squeezing or twisting action.

Pain or distress.

Words that are spelled similarly to wring:
wring, ring, bring, wing, wrong, wrung, wiring, pring, tring, waring, wrig, wrang, cring, fring, oring, dring, wrying, kring, aring, iring, whing, wrin, wrng, hring.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word wring:
intransitive, neck, juice, emotion, confession, tension, wet, hands, sunday, deep, every, you.

Words that rhyme with wring:
ring, cling, bring, spring, fling, swing, string, sting, thing, wing, sling, king, sing, ing, everything, ling, offspring, bling, ping, bing, ding, hamstring, anything, zing, ching, ming, ting, wellspring, upswing, hing, ying, plaything, sexting, snorkeling, beijing, pring, singh, ging, jing, xing, shoestring, qing, shing, texting, peking, fring, downswing, right wing, chicken wing, ning, key ring, thring, bee sting, left wing, pling, forewing, kling, schwing, leftwing, bellyaching, gas ring, thwing, box spring, baseball swing, chongqing, ringe, living thing, dring, erving, nose ring, benzene ring, fairy ring, o ring, signet ring, kring, hot spring, in full swing, rightwing, teething ring, annual ring, sea king, wedding ring, martin luther king, turkey wing, anchor ring, buffalo wing, coil spring, shoe string, sun king, on the wing, unring, coffee ring, djing, leaf spring, natural spring, growth ring, highland fling, air spring, bastard wing, gin sling.

Adjectives that are often used to describe wring:
wilder, cheese, extra, short, final, last, fatal, privy, friendly, hearty.

Consonant match to wring:
ring, wrong, rung, wrung, rang, rong, ringe.

Words that sound like wring:
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