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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Wring \Wring\, v. i.
To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.
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'T is all men's office to speak patience
To those that wring under the load of sorrow. --Shak.
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Look where the sister of the king of France
Sits wringing of her hands, and beats her breast.
--Marlowe.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
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.]
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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.
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[His steed] so sweat that men might him wring.
--Chaucer.
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The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.
--Bacon.
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The priest shall bring it [a dove] unto the altar,
and wring off his head. --Lev. i. 15.
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2. Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
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Too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait
fortune. --Clarendon.
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Didst thou taste but half the griefs
That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus
coldly. --Addison.
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3. To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
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How dare men thus wring the Scriptures? --Whitgift.
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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.
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Your overkindness doth wring tears from me. --Shak.
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He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the
fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the
fleece. --Judg. vi.
38.
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5. To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order
to enforce compliance.
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To wring the widow from her 'customed right. --Shak.
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The merchant adventures have been often wronged and
wringed to the quick. --Hayward.
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6. (Naut.) To bend or strain out of its position; as, to
wring a mast.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Wring \Wring\, n.
A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping. [Obs.]
--Bp. Hall.
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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) 2.0 : [ 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"; "They squeezed money from the owner of
the business by threatening him" [syn: extort, squeeze,
rack, gouge]
4: twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid;
"wring the towels"
[also: wrung]
From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
wring
Αγγλικά vb.
στύβω
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
wring
Middle English vb.
(alt form enm wryngen)
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # (senseid en squeeze) ''Often followed by'' '''out#Preposition''':
to squeeze#Verb or twist#Verb (something moist#Adjective) tightly so
that liquid#Noun is force out.
3 ## (senseid en wringer) To squeeze water#Noun from (an item#Noun of
wet#Adjective clothing#Noun) by pass#Verb through a wringer.
4 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Anne Tyler|authorlink=Anne
Tyler|chapter=1|title=(w: Breathing Lessons)|series=A Borzoi
Book|location=New York,
N.Y.|publisher=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20A.%20Knopf|year=1988|section=part
1|page=25|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/breathinglessonstyle00tyle/page/25/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-394-57234-5|passage=“I
feel I’ve been '''wrung''' through a wringer,” Maggie said.}
5 # (lb en also figuratively) ''Often followed by'' '''from''' ''or''
'''out''': to extract#Verb (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing,
twisting, or otherwise putting pressure#Noun on it.
6 # (lb en also figuratively) To hold#Verb (someone or something)
tightly and press#Verb or twist; to wrest#Verb.
7 ## To clasp#Verb and twist (hand#Noun) together due to
distress#Noun, sorrow#Noun, etc.
8 ##: (ux en to '''wring''' one’s hands with worry)
9 ##* {RQ:Beaumont
Knight|sig=[H4]|verso=1|page=63|passage=Come you vvhoſe
loues are dead, / And vvhiles I ſing / VVeepe and '''vvring''' / Euery
hand and euery head, (...)}
10 ##* (RQ:Smollett Regicide scene=v page=56 passage=Ah! vvherefore
doſt thou '''vvring''' thy tender Hands / In vvoeful Attitude?)
11 ##* {RQ:Edgeworth Practical Education|chapter=On
Attention|page=83|passage=[P]erſons in violent grief '''vvring''' their
hands and convulſe their countenances; (...)}
12 ##* {RQ:Dickens Our Mutual Friend|volume=I|chapter=The Sweat of
an Honest Man's Brow|page=109|passage=The wind sawed, and the sawdust
whirled. The shrubs '''wrung''' their many hands, bemoaning that they
had been over-persuaded by the sun to bud; (...)}
13 # To bend#Verb or strain#Verb (something) out of its
position#Noun; to wrench#Verb, to wrest.
14 # To contort or screw up (the face#Noun or its feature#Noun).
15 # To twist or wind#Verb (something) into coil#Noun; to coil#Verb.
16 # Of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch#Verb or press#Verb (a
person or part#Noun of their body#Noun), cause#Verb pain#Noun.
17 # (lb en archaic or Britain dialectal also figuratively) To cause
(someone or something) physical#Adjective harm#Noun, injury#Noun, or
pain; specifically, by apply#Verb pressure or by twisting; to harm#Verb,
to hurt#Verb, to injure.
18 # (lb en figuratively)
19 ## To cause (tear#Noun) to come out from a person#Noun or their
eye#Noun.
20 ##* (RQ:Kyd Spanish Tragedie sig=I2 verso=1 page=78 passage=And
art thou come, ''Horatio'' from the deapth, / To aske for iuſtice in
this vpper earth? / To tell thy father thou art vnreuengde, / To
'''vvring''' more teares from ''Iſabellas'' eyes: / VVhoſe lights are
dim'd vvith ouer-long laments.)
21 ##* (RQ:Marston Antonio's Revenge scene=v sig=C2 verso=1 page=27
passage=The gripe of chaunce is vveake, to '''vvring''' a teare, / From
him that knovves vvhat fortitude ſhould beare.)
22 ##* (RQ:Dryden Lee Duke of Guise pages=26–27 pageref=26
passage=[S]hame upon thee, / It '''vvrings''' the ''Tears'' from
''Grillon's Iron Heart'', / And melts me to a ''Babe''.)
23 ##* (RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield volume=I chapter=A Migration.
The Fortunate Circumstances of Our Lives are Generally Found at Last to
be of Our Own Procuring. page=182 passage=But it is not, it is not, a
ſmall diſtreſs that can '''vvring''' tears from theſe old eyes, that
have not vvept for ſo many years.)
24 ##* (RQ:Keats Otho the Great act=III scene=ii column=2 page=178
passage=A foolish dream that from my brow hath '''wrung''' / A wrathful
dew.)
25 ## To cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart#Noun,
soul#Noun, etc.); to distress#Verb, to torment#Verb.
26 ##: (synonyms en rack torture vex)
27 ##* {RQ:Clarendon
History|book=I|pages=60–61|pageref=60|passage=And if he had not too much
cheriſh’d his natural conſtitution, and propenſity; and been too much
griev’d, and '''vvrung''' by an uneaſy and ſtreight Fortune; he vvould
have been an excellent Man of buſineſs, (...)}
28 ##* (RQ:Addison Cato scene=i page=3 passage=Oh ''Portius'', didſt
thou taſte but half the Griefs / That '''vvring''' my Soul, thou cou’dſt
not talk thus coldly.)
29 ##* {RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield|volume=II|chapter=Happiness
and Misery rather the Result of Prudence than of Virtue in This
Life.(nb...: Temporal Evils or Felicities being Regarded by Heaven as
Things Merely in Themselves Trifling and Unworthy Its Care in the
Distribution.)|pages=133–134|pageref=133|passage=[T]hough he has
'''vvrung''' my heart, for I am ſick almoſt to fainting, very ſick, my
fellovv priſoner, yet that ſhall never inſpire me vvith vengeance.}
30 ##* (RQ:Stevenson Jekyll and Hyde chapter=Henry Jekyll's Full
Statement of the Case page=135 passage=I slept after the prostration of
the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the
nightmares that '''wrung''' me could avail to break.)
31 ##* (RQ:Woolf To the Lighthouse page=275 passage=And then to want
and not to have—to want and want—how that '''wrung''' the heart, and
'''wrung''' it again and again!)
32 ## To obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by
extortion or other force#Noun.
33 ##: (ux en The police said they would '''wring''' the truth out of
that criminal.)
34 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Henry
6-3|act=III|scene=i|page=158|column=1|passage=No ''Harry'', ''Harry'',
’tis no Land of thine; / Thy place is fill’d, thy Scepter '''vvrung'''
from thee, (...)}
35 ##* {RQ:Hall Epistles|volume=I|chapter=Epistle
Dedicatorie|page=8|passage=[I]f I could '''vvring''' ought from my
ſelfe, not vnvvorthie of a iudicious Reader; (...)}
36 ##* (RQ:Richardson Pamela volume=I letter=XXXI page=168
passage=Torture ſhould not '''vvring''' it from me, I aſſure you.)
37 ##* (RQ:Scott Ivanhoe volume=I chapter=VII pages=125–126
pageref=125 passage=Hard hands have '''wrung''' from me my goods, my
money, my ships, and all that I possessed—Yet I can tell thee what thou
lackest, and it may be, supply it too. footer=There are two chapter VIIs
in this volume; this is the second one.)
38 ##* {RQ:Macaulay History of
England|volume=IV|chapter=XXII|page=727|passage=The malcontents
flattered themselves, (...) that it would be found impossible to restore
public credit, to obtain advances from capitalists, or to '''wring'''
taxes out of the distressed population, (...)}
39 ##* (quote-book en author=Abraham Lincoln authorlink=Abraham
Lincoln
title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Lincoln's%20second%20inaugural%20address
url=https://books.google.com/books?id=upQuAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PT28
date=4 March 1865 passage=It may seem strange that any men should dare
to ask a just God's assistance in '''wringing''' their bread from the
sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not
judged.)
40 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Emma Goldman|authorlink=Emma
Goldman|chapter=Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure|title=(w: Anarchism
and Other Essays)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Mother Earth
Publishing Association(nb...: 210 East Thirteenth
Street)|year=1910|pages=129–130|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/anarchismandoth00havegoog/page/n136/mode/1up|oclc=346693|passage=[T]he
enormous profits thus '''wrung''' from convict labor are a constant
incentive to the contractors to exact from their unhappy victims tasks
altogether beyond their strength, and to punish them cruelly when their
work does not come up to the excessive demands made.}
41 ##* (RQ:Buck Good Earth chapter=III page=33 passage=Wang Lung sat
smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain on the table. It had come
out of the earth, this silver—out of his earth that he ploughed and
turned and spent himself on. He took his life from this earth; drop by
drop by his sweat he '''wrung''' food from it and from the food silver.)
42 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Robertson Davies|authorlink=Robertson
Davies|chapter=The Soirée of
Illusions|title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth%20Business|location=Toronto,
Ont.|publisher=(w: Macmillan of Canada)|year=1970|section=section
2|page=278|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/fifthbusinessnov0000davi/page/278/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-14-004387-7|passage=[H]is
confidences were not '''wrung''' from him against his will but gushed
like oil from a well, (...)}
43 ## To use#Verb effort#Noun to draw#Verb (a response, word#Noun,
etc.) from or out of someone; to generate (something) as a response.
44 ##: (synonyms en elicit provoke)
45 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
Q|act=V|scene=i|page=67|passage=O noble ſir! / Your ouer kindneſſe doth
'''vvring''' teares from me, (...)}
46 ##* (RQ:Herbert Temple chapter=Praise page=151 passage=My buſie
heart ſhall ſpin it all my dayes: / And vvhen it ſtops for vvant of
ſtore, / Then vvill I '''vvring''' it vvith a ſigh or grone, / That thou
mayſt yet have more.)
47 ##* (RQ:Milton Samson page=72 lines=208–211 passage=[T]hirty
ſpies, / VVho threatning cruel death conſtrain'd the bride / To
'''vvring''' from me and tell to them my ſecret, / That ſolv'd the
riddle vvhich I had propos'd.)
48 ##* {RQ:Shelley Queen Mab|note=IV. Page 54. Falsehood and Vice: A
Dialogue|page=130|passage=Whilst monarchs laughed upon their thrones /
To hear a famished nation's groans, / And hugged the wealth '''wrung'''
from the woe / That makes its eyes and veins o'erflow,— (...)}
49 ##* (RQ:Keats Lamia poem=Ode to Psyche page=117 passage=O Goddess!
hear these tuneless numbers, '''wrung''' / By sweet enforcement and
remembrance dear,)
50 ##* (RQ:Bronte Poems poem=Evening Solace page=122 passage=And
thoughts that once '''wrung''' groans of anguish, / Now cause but some
mild tears to flow.)
51 ##* (RQ:Douglass Bondage chapter=A Change Came o'er the Spirit of
My Dream page=156 passage=Words like these, I observed, always troubled
them; and I had no small satisfaction in '''wringing''' from the boys,
occasionally, that fresh and bitter condemnation of slavery, that
springs from nature, unseared and unperverted.)
52 ## (lb en obsolete) To afflict or oppress (someone) to enforce
compliance; to extort#Verb.
53 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Henry
6-2|act=V|scene=i|page=145|column=1|passage=VVho can be bound by any
ſolemne Vovv / (...) / To '''vvring''' the VViddovv from her cuſtom’d
right, / And have no other reaſon for this vvrong, / But that he vvas
bound by a ſolemne Oath?}
54 ##* {RQ:Hayward Edward 6|page=144|passage=[T]he Merchant
aduenturers haue beene often vvronged and '''vvringed''' to the quicke,
(...)}
55 ##* (RQ:Young Night-Thoughts page=29 passage=Time ''vvaſted'' is
Exiſtence, ''us'd'' is Life. / And ''bare Exiſtence'', Man, to ''live''
ordain'd, / '''VVrings''', and oppreſſes vvith enormous VVeight.)
56 ## (lb en obsolete) To cause (someone) to do#Verb something or to
think#Verb a certain way#Noun.
57 ##* (RQ:Thomas More Workes title=Heresyes book=III chapter=III
page=210 column=1 passage=For men be ſo parciall alway to theim ſelfe,
that our hart euer thinketh the iudgement wrong, that '''wringeth''' vs
to the worſe.)
58 ## (lb en obsolete) To change#Verb (something) into another thing.
59 ##* {RQ:Hunt Jar of Honey|chapter=Christmas and Italy; or, A
Modest Essay, Showing the Extreme Fitness of This Book for the
Season|page=xvii|passage=As the wines which flow from the first treading
of the grape are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press,
which gives them the roughness of the husk and the stone, so are those
doctrines best and sweetest which flow from ''a gentle crush'' of the
Scriptures, and are not '''wrung''' into controversies and
common-places.|footer=Attributed by the author to (w: Francis Bacon).}
60 ## (lb en obsolete) To give#Verb (teaching#Noun, words, etc.) an
incorrect meaning#Noun; to twist, to wrest.
61 ##: (synonyms en distort pervert)
62 ##* {quote-book|en|author=John Whitgift|authorlink=John
Whitgift|chapter=Whether Idolatrous Sacrificers and Mass-mongers may
afterward be Ministers of the Gospel. Chap. ii. The First
Division.|editor=John Ayre|title=The Works of John Whitgift,
D.D.,(nb...: Master of Trinity College, Dean of Lincoln, &c.
Afterwards Successively Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of
Canterbury.) The First Portion, Containing the Defence of the Answer to
the Admonition, against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates
I–VI|location=Cambridge, Cambridgeshire|publisher=(...: Printed at the)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20University%20Press [for the
(w: Parker Society)]|year=1572|year_published=1851|section=tract III (Of
the Election of
Ministers)|page=318|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=AVlXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA318|oclc=41953678|passage=Lord,
how dare these men thus '''wring''' the scriptures?}
63 ##* (RQ:Milton Reason chapter=To the Argument of B[ishop] Andrews
and the Primat page=8 passage=Or elſe they vvould ſtraine us out a
certaine figurative Prelat, by '''vvringing''' the collective allegory
of thoſe ſeven Angels into ſeven ſingle Rochets.)
64 ## (lb en obsolete reflexive) To put#Verb (oneself) in a position
by cunning#Adjective or subtle means#Noun; to insinuate.
65 ##* (RQ:Nashe Pierce Penilesse page=23 passage=Drudges, that haue
no extraordinarie giftes of bodie nor of minde, filche themselues into
some noble-mans seruice, either by bribes or by flatterie, and, when
they are there, they so labour it with cap and knee, and ply it with
priuie whisperinges, that they '''wring''' themsleues into his good
opinion ere he be aware.)
66 ##* (RQ:Marston Antonio and Mellida sig=F2 verso=1 page=49
passage=VVe '''vvring''' our ſelues into this vvretched vvorld, / To
pule, and vveepe, exclaime, to curſe and raile, / To fret, and ban the
fates, to ſtrike the earth / As I doe novv.)
67 # (lb en materials science) To slide#Verb (two ultraflat
surface#Noun) together such that their faces bond#Verb.
68 (lb en intransitive)
69 # To be engaged in clasping and twisting (especially the hands),
or exerting pressure.
70 # To twist the body in or as if in pain; to writhe#Verb.
71 # (lb en figuratively)
72 ## To contend, to struggle#Verb; also, to strive#Verb, to
toil#Verb.
73 ##* {RQ:John Heywood Spider|chapter=The Introduction to the
Matter, Showing howe the Flie Chaunced to Fall into the Spiders
Copweb|page=27|passage=Thus chaunce hath (by exchaunge) the flie ſo
trapt, / That ſodainly he loſt his libertee: / The more he '''wrange''',
the faſter was he wrapt [in the spider's web] / And all to thencreaſe of
his jeopardy, (...)}
74 ## To experience#Verb distress, pain, punishment, etc.
75 ##* {RQ:Chapman Charles|sig=B|page=10|passage=[A]ll Ambaſſadours
/ (You knovv) haue chiefly theſe inſtructions; / (...) / [T]o obſerue
the countenances and ſpirites, / Of ſuch as are impatient of reſt; / And
'''vvring''' beneath, ſome priuate diſcontent: (...)}
76 # (lb en mining) Of a lode: to be depleted of ore; to peter or
peter out.
77 # (lb en obsolete) To make#Verb a way out with difficulty.
n.
1 (lb en also figuratively) A powerful squeeze#Verb or twist#Verb
action#Noun.
2 (lb en dated) ''Followed by'' '''down#Preposition''': the product
of wring#Verb, such as cider or wine#Noun.
3 (lb en obsolete) A sharp#Adjective physical#Adjective pain#Noun,
especially in the abdomen; also, mental#Adjective pain or distress#Noun.
n.
(lb en archaic) A device for compress#Verb or press#Verb, especially
for make#Verb cheese#Noun, cider from apple#Noun, or wine#Noun from
grape#Noun.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
wring
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # (senseid en squeeze) ''Often followed by'' '''out#Preposition''':
to squeeze#Verb or twist#Verb (something moist#Adjective) tightly so
that liquid#Noun is force out.
3 ## (senseid en wringer) To squeeze water#Noun from (an item#Noun of
wet#Adjective clothing#Noun) by pass#Verb through a wringer.
4 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Anne Tyler|authorlink=Anne
Tyler|chapter=1|title=(w: Breathing Lessons)|series=A Borzoi
Book|location=New York,
N.Y.|publisher=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20A.%20Knopf|year=1988|section=part
1|page=25|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/breathinglessonstyle00tyle/page/25/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-394-57234-5|passage=“I
feel I’ve been '''wrung''' through a wringer,” Maggie said.}
5 # (lb en also figuratively) ''Often followed by'' '''from''' ''or''
'''out''': to extract#Verb (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing,
twisting, or otherwise putting pressure#Noun on it.
6 # (lb en also figuratively) To hold#Verb (someone or something)
tightly and press#Verb or twist; to wrest#Verb.
7 ## To clasp#Verb and twist (hand#Noun) together due to
distress#Noun, sorrow#Noun, etc.
8 ##: (ux en to '''wring''' one’s hands with worry)
9 ##* {RQ:Beaumont
Knight|sig=[H4]|verso=1|page=63|passage=Come you vvhoſe
loues are dead, / And vvhiles I ſing / VVeepe and '''vvring''' / Euery
hand and euery head, (...)}
10 ##* (RQ:Smollett Regicide scene=v page=56 passage=Ah! vvherefore
doſt thou '''vvring''' thy tender Hands / In vvoeful Attitude?)
11 ##* {RQ:Edgeworth Practical Education|chapter=On
Attention|page=83|passage=[P]erſons in violent grief '''vvring''' their
hands and convulſe their countenances; (...)}
12 ##* {RQ:Dickens Our Mutual Friend|volume=I|chapter=The Sweat of
an Honest Man's Brow|page=109|passage=The wind sawed, and the sawdust
whirled. The shrubs '''wrung''' their many hands, bemoaning that they
had been over-persuaded by the sun to bud; (...)}
13 # To bend#Verb or strain#Verb (something) out of its
position#Noun; to wrench#Verb, to wrest.
14 # To contort or screw up (the face#Noun or its feature#Noun).
15 # To twist or wind#Verb (something) into coil#Noun; to coil#Verb.
16 # Of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch#Verb or press#Verb (a
person or part#Noun of their body#Noun), cause#Verb pain#Noun.
17 # (lb en archaic or Britain dialectal also figuratively) To cause
(someone or something) physical#Adjective harm#Noun, injury#Noun, or
pain; specifically, by apply#Verb pressure or by twisting; to harm#Verb,
to hurt#Verb, to injure.
18 # (lb en figuratively)
19 ## To cause (tear#Noun) to come out from a person#Noun or their
eye#Noun.
20 ##* (RQ:Kyd Spanish Tragedie sig=I2 verso=1 page=78 passage=And
art thou come, ''Horatio'' from the deapth, / To aske for iuſtice in
this vpper earth? / To tell thy father thou art vnreuengde, / To
'''vvring''' more teares from ''Iſabellas'' eyes: / VVhoſe lights are
dim'd vvith ouer-long laments.)
21 ##* (RQ:Marston Antonio's Revenge scene=v sig=C2 verso=1 page=27
passage=The gripe of chaunce is vveake, to '''vvring''' a teare, / From
him that knovves vvhat fortitude ſhould beare.)
22 ##* (RQ:Dryden Lee Duke of Guise pages=26–27 pageref=26
passage=[S]hame upon thee, / It '''vvrings''' the ''Tears'' from
''Grillon's Iron Heart'', / And melts me to a ''Babe''.)
23 ##* (RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield volume=I chapter=A Migration.
The Fortunate Circumstances of Our Lives are Generally Found at Last to
be of Our Own Procuring. page=182 passage=But it is not, it is not, a
ſmall diſtreſs that can '''vvring''' tears from theſe old eyes, that
have not vvept for ſo many years.)
24 ##* (RQ:Keats Otho the Great act=III scene=ii column=2 page=178
passage=A foolish dream that from my brow hath '''wrung''' / A wrathful
dew.)
25 ## To cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart#Noun,
soul#Noun, etc.); to distress#Verb, to torment#Verb.
26 ##: (synonyms en rack torture vex)
27 ##* {RQ:Clarendon
History|book=I|pages=60–61|pageref=60|passage=And if he had not too much
cheriſh’d his natural conſtitution, and propenſity; and been too much
griev’d, and '''vvrung''' by an uneaſy and ſtreight Fortune; he vvould
have been an excellent Man of buſineſs, (...)}
28 ##* (RQ:Addison Cato scene=i page=3 passage=Oh ''Portius'', didſt
thou taſte but half the Griefs / That '''vvring''' my Soul, thou cou’dſt
not talk thus coldly.)
29 ##* {RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield|volume=II|chapter=Happiness
and Misery rather the Result of Prudence than of Virtue in This
Life.(nb...: Temporal Evils or Felicities being Regarded by Heaven as
Things Merely in Themselves Trifling and Unworthy Its Care in the
Distribution.)|pages=133–134|pageref=133|passage=[T]hough he has
'''vvrung''' my heart, for I am ſick almoſt to fainting, very ſick, my
fellovv priſoner, yet that ſhall never inſpire me vvith vengeance.}
30 ##* (RQ:Stevenson Jekyll and Hyde chapter=Henry Jekyll's Full
Statement of the Case page=135 passage=I slept after the prostration of
the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the
nightmares that '''wrung''' me could avail to break.)
31 ##* (RQ:Woolf To the Lighthouse page=275 passage=And then to want
and not to have—to want and want—how that '''wrung''' the heart, and
'''wrung''' it again and again!)
32 ## To obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by
extortion or other force#Noun.
33 ##: (ux en The police said they would '''wring''' the truth out of
that criminal.)
34 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Henry
6-3|act=III|scene=i|page=158|column=1|passage=No ''Harry'', ''Harry'',
’tis no Land of thine; / Thy place is fill’d, thy Scepter '''vvrung'''
from thee, (...)}
35 ##* {RQ:Hall Epistles|volume=I|chapter=Epistle
Dedicatorie|page=8|passage=[I]f I could '''vvring''' ought from my
ſelfe, not vnvvorthie of a iudicious Reader; (...)}
36 ##* (RQ:Richardson Pamela volume=I letter=XXXI page=168
passage=Torture ſhould not '''vvring''' it from me, I aſſure you.)
37 ##* (RQ:Scott Ivanhoe volume=I chapter=VII pages=125–126
pageref=125 passage=Hard hands have '''wrung''' from me my goods, my
money, my ships, and all that I possessed—Yet I can tell thee what thou
lackest, and it may be, supply it too. footer=There are two chapter VIIs
in this volume; this is the second one.)
38 ##* {RQ:Macaulay History of
England|volume=IV|chapter=XXII|page=727|passage=The malcontents
flattered themselves, (...) that it would be found impossible to restore
public credit, to obtain advances from capitalists, or to '''wring'''
taxes out of the distressed population, (...)}
39 ##* (quote-book en author=Abraham Lincoln authorlink=Abraham
Lincoln
title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Lincoln's%20second%20inaugural%20address
url=https://books.google.com/books?id=upQuAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PT28
date=4 March 1865 passage=It may seem strange that any men should dare
to ask a just God's assistance in '''wringing''' their bread from the
sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not
judged.)
40 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Emma Goldman|authorlink=Emma
Goldman|chapter=Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure|title=(w: Anarchism
and Other Essays)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Mother Earth
Publishing Association(nb...: 210 East Thirteenth
Street)|year=1910|pages=129–130|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/anarchismandoth00havegoog/page/n136/mode/1up|oclc=346693|passage=[T]he
enormous profits thus '''wrung''' from convict labor are a constant
incentive to the contractors to exact from their unhappy victims tasks
altogether beyond their strength, and to punish them cruelly when their
work does not come up to the excessive demands made.}
41 ##* (RQ:Buck Good Earth chapter=III page=33 passage=Wang Lung sat
smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain on the table. It had come
out of the earth, this silver—out of his earth that he ploughed and
turned and spent himself on. He took his life from this earth; drop by
drop by his sweat he '''wrung''' food from it and from the food silver.)
42 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Robertson Davies|authorlink=Robertson
Davies|chapter=The Soirée of
Illusions|title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth%20Business|location=Toronto,
Ont.|publisher=(w: Macmillan of Canada)|year=1970|section=section
2|page=278|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/fifthbusinessnov0000davi/page/278/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-14-004387-7|passage=[H]is
confidences were not '''wrung''' from him against his will but gushed
like oil from a well, (...)}
43 ## To use#Verb effort#Noun to draw#Verb (a response, word#Noun,
etc.) from or out of someone; to generate (something) as a response.
44 ##: (synonyms en elicit provoke)
45 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
Q|act=V|scene=i|page=67|passage=O noble ſir! / Your ouer kindneſſe doth
'''vvring''' teares from me, (...)}
46 ##* (RQ:Herbert Temple chapter=Praise page=151 passage=My buſie
heart ſhall ſpin it all my dayes: / And vvhen it ſtops for vvant of
ſtore, / Then vvill I '''vvring''' it vvith a ſigh or grone, / That thou
mayſt yet have more.)
47 ##* (RQ:Milton Samson page=72 lines=208–211 passage=[T]hirty
ſpies, / VVho threatning cruel death conſtrain'd the bride / To
'''vvring''' from me and tell to them my ſecret, / That ſolv'd the
riddle vvhich I had propos'd.)
48 ##* {RQ:Shelley Queen Mab|note=IV. Page 54. Falsehood and Vice: A
Dialogue|page=130|passage=Whilst monarchs laughed upon their thrones /
To hear a famished nation's groans, / And hugged the wealth '''wrung'''
from the woe / That makes its eyes and veins o'erflow,— (...)}
49 ##* (RQ:Keats Lamia poem=Ode to Psyche page=117 passage=O Goddess!
hear these tuneless numbers, '''wrung''' / By sweet enforcement and
remembrance dear,)
50 ##* (RQ:Bronte Poems poem=Evening Solace page=122 passage=And
thoughts that once '''wrung''' groans of anguish, / Now cause but some
mild tears to flow.)
51 ##* (RQ:Douglass Bondage chapter=A Change Came o'er the Spirit of
My Dream page=156 passage=Words like these, I observed, always troubled
them; and I had no small satisfaction in '''wringing''' from the boys,
occasionally, that fresh and bitter condemnation of slavery, that
springs from nature, unseared and unperverted.)
52 ## (lb en obsolete) To afflict or oppress (someone) to enforce
compliance; to extort#Verb.
53 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Henry
6-2|act=V|scene=i|page=145|column=1|passage=VVho can be bound by any
ſolemne Vovv / (...) / To '''vvring''' the VViddovv from her cuſtom’d
right, / And have no other reaſon for this vvrong, / But that he vvas
bound by a ſolemne Oath?}
54 ##* {RQ:Hayward Edward 6|page=144|passage=[T]he Merchant
aduenturers haue beene often vvronged and '''vvringed''' to the quicke,
(...)}
55 ##* (RQ:Young Night-Thoughts page=29 passage=Time ''vvaſted'' is
Exiſtence, ''us'd'' is Life. / And ''bare Exiſtence'', Man, to ''live''
ordain'd, / '''VVrings''', and oppreſſes vvith enormous VVeight.)
56 ## (lb en obsolete) To cause (someone) to do#Verb something or to
think#Verb a certain way#Noun.
57 ##* (RQ:Thomas More Workes title=Heresyes book=III chapter=III
page=210 column=1 passage=For men be ſo parciall alway to theim ſelfe,
that our hart euer thinketh the iudgement wrong, that '''wringeth''' vs
to the worſe.)
58 ## (lb en obsolete) To change#Verb (something) into another thing.
59 ##* {RQ:Hunt Jar of Honey|chapter=Christmas and Italy; or, A
Modest Essay, Showing the Extreme Fitness of This Book for the
Season|page=xvii|passage=As the wines which flow from the first treading
of the grape are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press,
which gives them the roughness of the husk and the stone, so are those
doctrines best and sweetest which flow from ''a gentle crush'' of the
Scriptures, and are not '''wrung''' into controversies and
common-places.|footer=Attributed by the author to (w: Francis Bacon).}
60 ## (lb en obsolete) To give#Verb (teaching#Noun, words, etc.) an
incorrect meaning#Noun; to twist, to wrest.
61 ##: (synonyms en distort pervert)
62 ##* {quote-book|en|author=John Whitgift|authorlink=John
Whitgift|chapter=Whether Idolatrous Sacrificers and Mass-mongers may
afterward be Ministers of the Gospel. Chap. ii. The First
Division.|editor=John Ayre|title=The Works of John Whitgift,
D.D.,(nb...: Master of Trinity College, Dean of Lincoln, &c.
Afterwards Successively Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of
Canterbury.) The First Portion, Containing the Defence of the Answer to
the Admonition, against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates
I–VI|location=Cambridge, Cambridgeshire|publisher=(...: Printed at the)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20University%20Press [for the
(w: Parker Society)]|year=1572|year_published=1851|section=tract III (Of
the Election of
Ministers)|page=318|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=AVlXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA318|oclc=41953678|passage=Lord,
how dare these men thus '''wring''' the scriptures?}
63 ##* (RQ:Milton Reason chapter=To the Argument of B[ishop] Andrews
and the Primat page=8 passage=Or elſe they vvould ſtraine us out a
certaine figurative Prelat, by '''vvringing''' the collective allegory
of thoſe ſeven Angels into ſeven ſingle Rochets.)
64 ## (lb en obsolete reflexive) To put#Verb (oneself) in a position
by cunning#Adjective or subtle means#Noun; to insinuate.
65 ##* (RQ:Nashe Pierce Penilesse page=23 passage=Drudges, that haue
no extraordinarie giftes of bodie nor of minde, filche themselues into
some noble-mans seruice, either by bribes or by flatterie, and, when
they are there, they so labour it with cap and knee, and ply it with
priuie whisperinges, that they '''wring''' themsleues into his good
opinion ere he be aware.)
66 ##* (RQ:Marston Antonio and Mellida sig=F2 verso=1 page=49
passage=VVe '''vvring''' our ſelues into this vvretched vvorld, / To
pule, and vveepe, exclaime, to curſe and raile, / To fret, and ban the
fates, to ſtrike the earth / As I doe novv.)
67 # (lb en materials science) To slide#Verb (two ultraflat
surface#Noun) together such that their faces bond#Verb.
68 (lb en intransitive)
69 # To be engaged in clasping and twisting (especially the hands),
or exerting pressure.
70 # To twist the body in or as if in pain; to writhe#Verb.
71 # (lb en figuratively)
72 ## To contend, to struggle#Verb; also, to strive#Verb, to
toil#Verb.
73 ##* {RQ:John Heywood Spider|chapter=The Introduction to the
Matter, Showing howe the Flie Chaunced to Fall into the Spiders
Copweb|page=27|passage=Thus chaunce hath (by exchaunge) the flie ſo
trapt, / That ſodainly he loſt his libertee: / The more he '''wrange''',
the faſter was he wrapt [in the spider's web] / And all to thencreaſe of
his jeopardy, (...)}
74 ## To experience#Verb distress, pain, punishment, etc.
75 ##* {RQ:Chapman Charles|sig=B|page=10|passage=[A]ll Ambaſſadours
/ (You knovv) haue chiefly theſe inſtructions; / (...) / [T]o obſerue
the countenances and ſpirites, / Of ſuch as are impatient of reſt; / And
'''vvring''' beneath, ſome priuate diſcontent: (...)}
76 # (lb en mining) Of a lode: to be depleted of ore; to peter or
peter out.
77 # (lb en obsolete) To make#Verb a way out with difficulty.
n.
1 (lb en also figuratively) A powerful squeeze#Verb or twist#Verb
action#Noun.
2 (lb en dated) ''Followed by'' '''down#Preposition''': the product
of wring#Verb, such as cider or wine#Noun.
3 (lb en obsolete) A sharp#Adjective physical#Adjective pain#Noun,
especially in the abdomen; also, mental#Adjective pain or distress#Noun.
n.
(lb en archaic) A device for compress#Verb or press#Verb, especially
for make#Verb cheese#Noun, cider from apple#Noun, or wine#Noun from
grape#Noun.
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
wring
Middle English vb.
(alt form enm wryngen)
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # (senseid en squeeze) ''Often followed by'' '''out#Preposition''':
to squeeze#Verb or twist#Verb (something moist#Adjective) tightly so
that liquid#Noun is force out.
3 ## (senseid en wringer) To squeeze water#Noun from (an item#Noun of
wet#Adjective clothing#Noun) by pass#Verb through a wringer.
4 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Anne Tyler|authorlink=Anne
Tyler|chapter=1|title=(w: Breathing Lessons)|series=A Borzoi
Book|location=New York,
N.Y.|publisher=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20A.%20Knopf|year=1988|section=part
1|page=25|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/breathinglessonstyle00tyle/page/25/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-394-57234-5|passage=“I
feel I’ve been '''wrung''' through a wringer,” Maggie said.}
5 # (lb en also figuratively) ''Often followed by'' '''from''' ''or''
'''out''': to extract#Verb (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing,
twisting, or otherwise putting pressure#Noun on it.
6 # (lb en also figuratively) To hold#Verb (someone or something)
tightly and press#Verb or twist; to wrest#Verb.
7 ## To clasp#Verb and twist (hand#Noun) together due to
distress#Noun, sorrow#Noun, etc.
8 ##: (ux en to '''wring''' one’s hands with worry)
9 ##* {RQ:Beaumont
Knight|sig=[H4]|verso=1|page=63|passage=Come you vvhoſe
loues are dead, / And vvhiles I ſing / VVeepe and '''vvring''' / Euery
hand and euery head, (...)}
10 ##* (RQ:Smollett Regicide scene=v page=56 passage=Ah! vvherefore
doſt thou '''vvring''' thy tender Hands / In vvoeful Attitude?)
11 ##* {RQ:Edgeworth Practical Education|chapter=On
Attention|page=83|passage=[P]erſons in violent grief '''vvring''' their
hands and convulſe their countenances; (...)}
12 ##* {RQ:Dickens Our Mutual Friend|volume=I|chapter=The Sweat of
an Honest Man's Brow|page=109|passage=The wind sawed, and the sawdust
whirled. The shrubs '''wrung''' their many hands, bemoaning that they
had been over-persuaded by the sun to bud; (...)}
13 # To bend#Verb or strain#Verb (something) out of its
position#Noun; to wrench#Verb, to wrest.
14 # To contort or screw up (the face#Noun or its feature#Noun).
15 # To twist or wind#Verb (something) into coil#Noun; to coil#Verb.
16 # Of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch#Verb or press#Verb (a
person or part#Noun of their body#Noun), cause#Verb pain#Noun.
17 # (lb en archaic or Britain dialectal also figuratively) To cause
(someone or something) physical#Adjective harm#Noun, injury#Noun, or
pain; specifically, by apply#Verb pressure or by twisting; to harm#Verb,
to hurt#Verb, to injure.
18 # (lb en figuratively)
19 ## To cause (tear#Noun) to come out from a person#Noun or their
eye#Noun.
20 ##* (RQ:Kyd Spanish Tragedie sig=I2 verso=1 page=78 passage=And
art thou come, ''Horatio'' from the deapth, / To aske for iuſtice in
this vpper earth? / To tell thy father thou art vnreuengde, / To
'''vvring''' more teares from ''Iſabellas'' eyes: / VVhoſe lights are
dim'd vvith ouer-long laments.)
21 ##* (RQ:Marston Antonio's Revenge scene=v sig=C2 verso=1 page=27
passage=The gripe of chaunce is vveake, to '''vvring''' a teare, / From
him that knovves vvhat fortitude ſhould beare.)
22 ##* (RQ:Dryden Lee Duke of Guise pages=26–27 pageref=26
passage=[S]hame upon thee, / It '''vvrings''' the ''Tears'' from
''Grillon's Iron Heart'', / And melts me to a ''Babe''.)
23 ##* (RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield volume=I chapter=A Migration.
The Fortunate Circumstances of Our Lives are Generally Found at Last to
be of Our Own Procuring. page=182 passage=But it is not, it is not, a
ſmall diſtreſs that can '''vvring''' tears from theſe old eyes, that
have not vvept for ſo many years.)
24 ##* (RQ:Keats Otho the Great act=III scene=ii column=2 page=178
passage=A foolish dream that from my brow hath '''wrung''' / A wrathful
dew.)
25 ## To cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart#Noun,
soul#Noun, etc.); to distress#Verb, to torment#Verb.
26 ##: (synonyms en rack torture vex)
27 ##* {RQ:Clarendon
History|book=I|pages=60–61|pageref=60|passage=And if he had not too much
cheriſh’d his natural conſtitution, and propenſity; and been too much
griev’d, and '''vvrung''' by an uneaſy and ſtreight Fortune; he vvould
have been an excellent Man of buſineſs, (...)}
28 ##* (RQ:Addison Cato scene=i page=3 passage=Oh ''Portius'', didſt
thou taſte but half the Griefs / That '''vvring''' my Soul, thou cou’dſt
not talk thus coldly.)
29 ##* {RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield|volume=II|chapter=Happiness
and Misery rather the Result of Prudence than of Virtue in This
Life.(nb...: Temporal Evils or Felicities being Regarded by Heaven as
Things Merely in Themselves Trifling and Unworthy Its Care in the
Distribution.)|pages=133–134|pageref=133|passage=[T]hough he has
'''vvrung''' my heart, for I am ſick almoſt to fainting, very ſick, my
fellovv priſoner, yet that ſhall never inſpire me vvith vengeance.}
30 ##* (RQ:Stevenson Jekyll and Hyde chapter=Henry Jekyll's Full
Statement of the Case page=135 passage=I slept after the prostration of
the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the
nightmares that '''wrung''' me could avail to break.)
31 ##* (RQ:Woolf To the Lighthouse page=275 passage=And then to want
and not to have—to want and want—how that '''wrung''' the heart, and
'''wrung''' it again and again!)
32 ## To obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by
extortion or other force#Noun.
33 ##: (ux en The police said they would '''wring''' the truth out of
that criminal.)
34 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Henry
6-3|act=III|scene=i|page=158|column=1|passage=No ''Harry'', ''Harry'',
’tis no Land of thine; / Thy place is fill’d, thy Scepter '''vvrung'''
from thee, (...)}
35 ##* {RQ:Hall Epistles|volume=I|chapter=Epistle
Dedicatorie|page=8|passage=[I]f I could '''vvring''' ought from my
ſelfe, not vnvvorthie of a iudicious Reader; (...)}
36 ##* (RQ:Richardson Pamela volume=I letter=XXXI page=168
passage=Torture ſhould not '''vvring''' it from me, I aſſure you.)
37 ##* (RQ:Scott Ivanhoe volume=I chapter=VII pages=125–126
pageref=125 passage=Hard hands have '''wrung''' from me my goods, my
money, my ships, and all that I possessed—Yet I can tell thee what thou
lackest, and it may be, supply it too. footer=There are two chapter VIIs
in this volume; this is the second one.)
38 ##* {RQ:Macaulay History of
England|volume=IV|chapter=XXII|page=727|passage=The malcontents
flattered themselves, (...) that it would be found impossible to restore
public credit, to obtain advances from capitalists, or to '''wring'''
taxes out of the distressed population, (...)}
39 ##* (quote-book en author=Abraham Lincoln authorlink=Abraham
Lincoln
title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Lincoln's%20second%20inaugural%20address
url=https://books.google.com/books?id=upQuAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PT28
date=4 March 1865 passage=It may seem strange that any men should dare
to ask a just God's assistance in '''wringing''' their bread from the
sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not
judged.)
40 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Emma Goldman|authorlink=Emma
Goldman|chapter=Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure|title=(w: Anarchism
and Other Essays)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Mother Earth
Publishing Association(nb...: 210 East Thirteenth
Street)|year=1910|pages=129–130|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/anarchismandoth00havegoog/page/n136/mode/1up|oclc=346693|passage=[T]he
enormous profits thus '''wrung''' from convict labor are a constant
incentive to the contractors to exact from their unhappy victims tasks
altogether beyond their strength, and to punish them cruelly when their
work does not come up to the excessive demands made.}
41 ##* (RQ:Buck Good Earth chapter=III page=33 passage=Wang Lung sat
smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain on the table. It had come
out of the earth, this silver—out of his earth that he ploughed and
turned and spent himself on. He took his life from this earth; drop by
drop by his sweat he '''wrung''' food from it and from the food silver.)
42 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Robertson Davies|authorlink=Robertson
Davies|chapter=The Soirée of
Illusions|title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth%20Business|location=Toronto,
Ont.|publisher=(w: Macmillan of Canada)|year=1970|section=section
2|page=278|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/fifthbusinessnov0000davi/page/278/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-14-004387-7|passage=[H]is
confidences were not '''wrung''' from him against his will but gushed
like oil from a well, (...)}
43 ## To use#Verb effort#Noun to draw#Verb (a response, word#Noun,
etc.) from or out of someone; to generate (something) as a response.
44 ##: (synonyms en elicit provoke)
45 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
Q|act=V|scene=i|page=67|passage=O noble ſir! / Your ouer kindneſſe doth
'''vvring''' teares from me, (...)}
46 ##* (RQ:Herbert Temple chapter=Praise page=151 passage=My buſie
heart ſhall ſpin it all my dayes: / And vvhen it ſtops for vvant of
ſtore, / Then vvill I '''vvring''' it vvith a ſigh or grone, / That thou
mayſt yet have more.)
47 ##* (RQ:Milton Samson page=72 lines=208–211 passage=[T]hirty
ſpies, / VVho threatning cruel death conſtrain'd the bride / To
'''vvring''' from me and tell to them my ſecret, / That ſolv'd the
riddle vvhich I had propos'd.)
48 ##* {RQ:Shelley Queen Mab|note=IV. Page 54. Falsehood and Vice: A
Dialogue|page=130|passage=Whilst monarchs laughed upon their thrones /
To hear a famished nation's groans, / And hugged the wealth '''wrung'''
from the woe / That makes its eyes and veins o'erflow,— (...)}
49 ##* (RQ:Keats Lamia poem=Ode to Psyche page=117 passage=O Goddess!
hear these tuneless numbers, '''wrung''' / By sweet enforcement and
remembrance dear,)
50 ##* (RQ:Bronte Poems poem=Evening Solace page=122 passage=And
thoughts that once '''wrung''' groans of anguish, / Now cause but some
mild tears to flow.)
51 ##* (RQ:Douglass Bondage chapter=A Change Came o'er the Spirit of
My Dream page=156 passage=Words like these, I observed, always troubled
them; and I had no small satisfaction in '''wringing''' from the boys,
occasionally, that fresh and bitter condemnation of slavery, that
springs from nature, unseared and unperverted.)
52 ## (lb en obsolete) To afflict or oppress (someone) to enforce
compliance; to extort#Verb.
53 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Henry
6-2|act=V|scene=i|page=145|column=1|passage=VVho can be bound by any
ſolemne Vovv / (...) / To '''vvring''' the VViddovv from her cuſtom’d
right, / And have no other reaſon for this vvrong, / But that he vvas
bound by a ſolemne Oath?}
54 ##* {RQ:Hayward Edward 6|page=144|passage=[T]he Merchant
aduenturers haue beene often vvronged and '''vvringed''' to the quicke,
(...)}
55 ##* (RQ:Young Night-Thoughts page=29 passage=Time ''vvaſted'' is
Exiſtence, ''us'd'' is Life. / And ''bare Exiſtence'', Man, to ''live''
ordain'd, / '''VVrings''', and oppreſſes vvith enormous VVeight.)
56 ## (lb en obsolete) To cause (someone) to do#Verb something or to
think#Verb a certain way#Noun.
57 ##* (RQ:Thomas More Workes title=Heresyes book=III chapter=III
page=210 column=1 passage=For men be ſo parciall alway to theim ſelfe,
that our hart euer thinketh the iudgement wrong, that '''wringeth''' vs
to the worſe.)
58 ## (lb en obsolete) To change#Verb (something) into another thing.
59 ##* {RQ:Hunt Jar of Honey|chapter=Christmas and Italy; or, A
Modest Essay, Showing the Extreme Fitness of This Book for the
Season|page=xvii|passage=As the wines which flow from the first treading
of the grape are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press,
which gives them the roughness of the husk and the stone, so are those
doctrines best and sweetest which flow from ''a gentle crush'' of the
Scriptures, and are not '''wrung''' into controversies and
common-places.|footer=Attributed by the author to (w: Francis Bacon).}
60 ## (lb en obsolete) To give#Verb (teaching#Noun, words, etc.) an
incorrect meaning#Noun; to twist, to wrest.
61 ##: (synonyms en distort pervert)
62 ##* {quote-book|en|author=John Whitgift|authorlink=John
Whitgift|chapter=Whether Idolatrous Sacrificers and Mass-mongers may
afterward be Ministers of the Gospel. Chap. ii. The First
Division.|editor=John Ayre|title=The Works of John Whitgift,
D.D.,(nb...: Master of Trinity College, Dean of Lincoln, &c.
Afterwards Successively Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of
Canterbury.) The First Portion, Containing the Defence of the Answer to
the Admonition, against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates
I–VI|location=Cambridge, Cambridgeshire|publisher=(...: Printed at the)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20University%20Press [for the
(w: Parker Society)]|year=1572|year_published=1851|section=tract III (Of
the Election of
Ministers)|page=318|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=AVlXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA318|oclc=41953678|passage=Lord,
how dare these men thus '''wring''' the scriptures?}
63 ##* (RQ:Milton Reason chapter=To the Argument of B[ishop] Andrews
and the Primat page=8 passage=Or elſe they vvould ſtraine us out a
certaine figurative Prelat, by '''vvringing''' the collective allegory
of thoſe ſeven Angels into ſeven ſingle Rochets.)
64 ## (lb en obsolete reflexive) To put#Verb (oneself) in a position
by cunning#Adjective or subtle means#Noun; to insinuate.
65 ##* (RQ:Nashe Pierce Penilesse page=23 passage=Drudges, that haue
no extraordinarie giftes of bodie nor of minde, filche themselues into
some noble-mans seruice, either by bribes or by flatterie, and, when
they are there, they so labour it with cap and knee, and ply it with
priuie whisperinges, that they '''wring''' themsleues into his good
opinion ere he be aware.)
66 ##* (RQ:Marston Antonio and Mellida sig=F2 verso=1 page=49
passage=VVe '''vvring''' our ſelues into this vvretched vvorld, / To
pule, and vveepe, exclaime, to curſe and raile, / To fret, and ban the
fates, to ſtrike the earth / As I doe novv.)
67 # (lb en materials science) To slide#Verb (two ultraflat
surface#Noun) together such that their faces bond#Verb.
68 (lb en intransitive)
69 # To be engaged in clasping and twisting (especially the hands),
or exerting pressure.
70 # To twist the body in or as if in pain; to writhe#Verb.
71 # (lb en figuratively)
72 ## To contend, to struggle#Verb; also, to strive#Verb, to
toil#Verb.
73 ##* {RQ:John Heywood Spider|chapter=The Introduction to the
Matter, Showing howe the Flie Chaunced to Fall into the Spiders
Copweb|page=27|passage=Thus chaunce hath (by exchaunge) the flie ſo
trapt, / That ſodainly he loſt his libertee: / The more he '''wrange''',
the faſter was he wrapt [in the spider's web] / And all to thencreaſe of
his jeopardy, (...)}
74 ## To experience#Verb distress, pain, punishment, etc.
75 ##* {RQ:Chapman Charles|sig=B|page=10|passage=[A]ll Ambaſſadours
/ (You knovv) haue chiefly theſe inſtructions; / (...) / [T]o obſerue
the countenances and ſpirites, / Of ſuch as are impatient of reſt; / And
'''vvring''' beneath, ſome priuate diſcontent: (...)}
76 # (lb en mining) Of a lode: to be depleted of ore; to peter or
peter out.
77 # (lb en obsolete) To make#Verb a way out with difficulty.
n.
1 (lb en also figuratively) A powerful squeeze#Verb or twist#Verb
action#Noun.
2 (lb en dated) ''Followed by'' '''down#Preposition''': the product
of wring#Verb, such as cider or wine#Noun.
3 (lb en obsolete) A sharp#Adjective physical#Adjective pain#Noun,
especially in the abdomen; also, mental#Adjective pain or distress#Noun.
n.
(lb en archaic) A device for compress#Verb or press#Verb, especially
for make#Verb cheese#Noun, cider from apple#Noun, or wine#Noun from
grape#Noun.
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
wring
Middle English vb.
(alt form enm wryngen)
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # (senseid en squeeze) ''Often followed by'' '''out#Preposition''':
to squeeze#Verb or twist#Verb (something moist#Adjective) tightly so
that liquid#Noun is force out.
3 ## (senseid en wringer) To squeeze water#Noun from (an item#Noun of
wet#Adjective clothing#Noun) by pass#Verb through a wringer.
4 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Anne Tyler|authorlink=Anne
Tyler|chapter=1|title=(w: Breathing Lessons)|series=A Borzoi
Book|location=New York,
N.Y.|publisher=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20A.%20Knopf|year=1988|section=part
1|page=25|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/breathinglessonstyle00tyle/page/25/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-394-57234-5|passage=“I
feel I’ve been '''wrung''' through a wringer,” Maggie said.}
5 # (lb en also figuratively) ''Often followed by'' '''from''' ''or''
'''out''': to extract#Verb (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing,
twisting, or otherwise putting pressure#Noun on it.
6 # (lb en also figuratively) To hold#Verb (someone or something)
tightly and press#Verb or twist; to wrest#Verb.
7 ## To clasp#Verb and twist (hand#Noun) together due to
distress#Noun, sorrow#Noun, etc.
8 ##: (ux en to '''wring''' one’s hands with worry)
9 ##* {RQ:Beaumont
Knight|sig=[H4]|verso=1|page=63|passage=Come you vvhoſe
loues are dead, / And vvhiles I ſing / VVeepe and '''vvring''' / Euery
hand and euery head, (...)}
10 ##* (RQ:Smollett Regicide scene=v page=56 passage=Ah! vvherefore
doſt thou '''vvring''' thy tender Hands / In vvoeful Attitude?)
11 ##* {RQ:Edgeworth Practical Education|chapter=On
Attention|page=83|passage=[P]erſons in violent grief '''vvring''' their
hands and convulſe their countenances; (...)}
12 ##* {RQ:Dickens Our Mutual Friend|volume=I|chapter=The Sweat of
an Honest Man's Brow|page=109|passage=The wind sawed, and the sawdust
whirled. The shrubs '''wrung''' their many hands, bemoaning that they
had been over-persuaded by the sun to bud; (...)}
13 # To bend#Verb or strain#Verb (something) out of its
position#Noun; to wrench#Verb, to wrest.
14 # To contort or screw up (the face#Noun or its feature#Noun).
15 # To twist or wind#Verb (something) into coil#Noun; to coil#Verb.
16 # Of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch#Verb or press#Verb (a
person or part#Noun of their body#Noun), cause#Verb pain#Noun.
17 # (lb en archaic or Britain dialectal also figuratively) To cause
(someone or something) physical#Adjective harm#Noun, injury#Noun, or
pain; specifically, by apply#Verb pressure or by twisting; to harm#Verb,
to hurt#Verb, to injure.
18 # (lb en figuratively)
19 ## To cause (tear#Noun) to come out from a person#Noun or their
eye#Noun.
20 ##* (RQ:Kyd Spanish Tragedie sig=I2 verso=1 page=78 passage=And
art thou come, ''Horatio'' from the deapth, / To aske for iuſtice in
this vpper earth? / To tell thy father thou art vnreuengde, / To
'''vvring''' more teares from ''Iſabellas'' eyes: / VVhoſe lights are
dim'd vvith ouer-long laments.)
21 ##* (RQ:Marston Antonio's Revenge scene=v sig=C2 verso=1 page=27
passage=The gripe of chaunce is vveake, to '''vvring''' a teare, / From
him that knovves vvhat fortitude ſhould beare.)
22 ##* (RQ:Dryden Lee Duke of Guise pages=26–27 pageref=26
passage=[S]hame upon thee, / It '''vvrings''' the ''Tears'' from
''Grillon's Iron Heart'', / And melts me to a ''Babe''.)
23 ##* (RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield volume=I chapter=A Migration.
The Fortunate Circumstances of Our Lives are Generally Found at Last to
be of Our Own Procuring. page=182 passage=But it is not, it is not, a
ſmall diſtreſs that can '''vvring''' tears from theſe old eyes, that
have not vvept for ſo many years.)
24 ##* (RQ:Keats Otho the Great act=III scene=ii column=2 page=178
passage=A foolish dream that from my brow hath '''wrung''' / A wrathful
dew.)
25 ## To cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart#Noun,
soul#Noun, etc.); to distress#Verb, to torment#Verb.
26 ##: (synonyms en rack torture vex)
27 ##* {RQ:Clarendon
History|book=I|pages=60–61|pageref=60|passage=And if he had not too much
cheriſh’d his natural conſtitution, and propenſity; and been too much
griev’d, and '''vvrung''' by an uneaſy and ſtreight Fortune; he vvould
have been an excellent Man of buſineſs, (...)}
28 ##* (RQ:Addison Cato scene=i page=3 passage=Oh ''Portius'', didſt
thou taſte but half the Griefs / That '''vvring''' my Soul, thou cou’dſt
not talk thus coldly.)
29 ##* {RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield|volume=II|chapter=Happiness
and Misery rather the Result of Prudence than of Virtue in This
Life.(nb...: Temporal Evils or Felicities being Regarded by Heaven as
Things Merely in Themselves Trifling and Unworthy Its Care in the
Distribution.)|pages=133–134|pageref=133|passage=[T]hough he has
'''vvrung''' my heart, for I am ſick almoſt to fainting, very ſick, my
fellovv priſoner, yet that ſhall never inſpire me vvith vengeance.}
30 ##* (RQ:Stevenson Jekyll and Hyde chapter=Henry Jekyll's Full
Statement of the Case page=135 passage=I slept after the prostration of
the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the
nightmares that '''wrung''' me could avail to break.)
31 ##* (RQ:Woolf To the Lighthouse page=275 passage=And then to want
and not to have—to want and want—how that '''wrung''' the heart, and
'''wrung''' it again and again!)
32 ## To obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by
extortion or other force#Noun.
33 ##: (ux en The police said they would '''wring''' the truth out of
that criminal.)
34 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Henry
6-3|act=III|scene=i|page=158|column=1|passage=No ''Harry'', ''Harry'',
’tis no Land of thine; / Thy place is fill’d, thy Scepter '''vvrung'''
from thee, (...)}
35 ##* {RQ:Hall Epistles|volume=I|chapter=Epistle
Dedicatorie|page=8|passage=[I]f I could '''vvring''' ought from my
ſelfe, not vnvvorthie of a iudicious Reader; (...)}
36 ##* (RQ:Richardson Pamela volume=I letter=XXXI page=168
passage=Torture ſhould not '''vvring''' it from me, I aſſure you.)
37 ##* (RQ:Scott Ivanhoe volume=I chapter=VII pages=125–126
pageref=125 passage=Hard hands have '''wrung''' from me my goods, my
money, my ships, and all that I possessed—Yet I can tell thee what thou
lackest, and it may be, supply it too. footer=There are two chapter VIIs
in this volume; this is the second one.)
38 ##* {RQ:Macaulay History of
England|volume=IV|chapter=XXII|page=727|passage=The malcontents
flattered themselves, (...) that it would be found impossible to restore
public credit, to obtain advances from capitalists, or to '''wring'''
taxes out of the distressed population, (...)}
39 ##* (quote-book en author=Abraham Lincoln authorlink=Abraham
Lincoln
title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Lincoln's%20second%20inaugural%20address
url=https://books.google.com/books?id=upQuAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PT28
date=4 March 1865 passage=It may seem strange that any men should dare
to ask a just God's assistance in '''wringing''' their bread from the
sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not
judged.)
40 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Emma Goldman|authorlink=Emma
Goldman|chapter=Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure|title=(w: Anarchism
and Other Essays)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Mother Earth
Publishing Association(nb...: 210 East Thirteenth
Street)|year=1910|pages=129–130|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/anarchismandoth00havegoog/page/n136/mode/1up|oclc=346693|passage=[T]he
enormous profits thus '''wrung''' from convict labor are a constant
incentive to the contractors to exact from their unhappy victims tasks
altogether beyond their strength, and to punish them cruelly when their
work does not come up to the excessive demands made.}
41 ##* (RQ:Buck Good Earth chapter=III page=33 passage=Wang Lung sat
smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain on the table. It had come
out of the earth, this silver—out of his earth that he ploughed and
turned and spent himself on. He took his life from this earth; drop by
drop by his sweat he '''wrung''' food from it and from the food silver.)
42 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Robertson Davies|authorlink=Robertson
Davies|chapter=The Soirée of
Illusions|title=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth%20Business|location=Toronto,
Ont.|publisher=(w: Macmillan of Canada)|year=1970|section=section
2|page=278|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/fifthbusinessnov0000davi/page/278/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-14-004387-7|passage=[H]is
confidences were not '''wrung''' from him against his will but gushed
like oil from a well, (...)}
43 ## To use#Verb effort#Noun to draw#Verb (a response, word#Noun,
etc.) from or out of someone; to generate (something) as a response.
44 ##: (synonyms en elicit provoke)
45 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
Q|act=V|scene=i|page=67|passage=O noble ſir! / Your ouer kindneſſe doth
'''vvring''' teares from me, (...)}
46 ##* (RQ:Herbert Temple chapter=Praise page=151 passage=My buſie
heart ſhall ſpin it all my dayes: / And vvhen it ſtops for vvant of
ſtore, / Then vvill I '''vvring''' it vvith a ſigh or grone, / That thou
mayſt yet have more.)
47 ##* (RQ:Milton Samson page=72 lines=208–211 passage=[T]hirty
ſpies, / VVho threatning cruel death conſtrain'd the bride / To
'''vvring''' from me and tell to them my ſecret, / That ſolv'd the
riddle vvhich I had propos'd.)
48 ##* {RQ:Shelley Queen Mab|note=IV. Page 54. Falsehood and Vice: A
Dialogue|page=130|passage=Whilst monarchs laughed upon their thrones /
To hear a famished nation's groans, / And hugged the wealth '''wrung'''
from the woe / That makes its eyes and veins o'erflow,— (...)}
49 ##* (RQ:Keats Lamia poem=Ode to Psyche page=117 passage=O Goddess!
hear these tuneless numbers, '''wrung''' / By sweet enforcement and
remembrance dear,)
50 ##* (RQ:Bronte Poems poem=Evening Solace page=122 passage=And
thoughts that once '''wrung''' groans of anguish, / Now cause but some
mild tears to flow.)
51 ##* (RQ:Douglass Bondage chapter=A Change Came o'er the Spirit of
My Dream page=156 passage=Words like these, I observed, always troubled
them; and I had no small satisfaction in '''wringing''' from the boys,
occasionally, that fresh and bitter condemnation of slavery, that
springs from nature, unseared and unperverted.)
52 ## (lb en obsolete) To afflict or oppress (someone) to enforce
compliance; to extort#Verb.
53 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Henry
6-2|act=V|scene=i|page=145|column=1|passage=VVho can be bound by any
ſolemne Vovv / (...) / To '''vvring''' the VViddovv from her cuſtom’d
right, / And have no other reaſon for this vvrong, / But that he vvas
bound by a ſolemne Oath?}
54 ##* {RQ:Hayward Edward 6|page=144|passage=[T]he Merchant
aduenturers haue beene often vvronged and '''vvringed''' to the quicke,
(...)}
55 ##* (RQ:Young Night-Thoughts page=29 passage=Time ''vvaſted'' is
Exiſtence, ''us'd'' is Life. / And ''bare Exiſtence'', Man, to ''live''
ordain'd, / '''VVrings''', and oppreſſes vvith enormous VVeight.)
56 ## (lb en obsolete) To cause (someone) to do#Verb something or to
think#Verb a certain way#Noun.
57 ##* (RQ:Thomas More Workes title=Heresyes book=III chapter=III
page=210 column=1 passage=For men be ſo parciall alway to theim ſelfe,
that our hart euer thinketh the iudgement wrong, that '''wringeth''' vs
to the worſe.)
58 ## (lb en obsolete) To change#Verb (something) into another thing.
59 ##* {RQ:Hunt Jar of Honey|chapter=Christmas and Italy; or, A
Modest Essay, Showing the Extreme Fitness of This Book for the
Season|page=xvii|passage=As the wines which flow from the first treading
of the grape are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press,
which gives them the roughness of the husk and the stone, so are those
doctrines best and sweetest which flow from ''a gentle crush'' of the
Scriptures, and are not '''wrung''' into controversies and
common-places.|footer=Attributed by the author to (w: Francis Bacon).}
60 ## (lb en obsolete) To give#Verb (teaching#Noun, words, etc.) an
incorrect meaning#Noun; to twist, to wrest.
61 ##: (synonyms en distort pervert)
62 ##* {quote-book|en|author=John Whitgift|authorlink=John
Whitgift|chapter=Whether Idolatrous Sacrificers and Mass-mongers may
afterward be Ministers of the Gospel. Chap. ii. The First
Division.|editor=John Ayre|title=The Works of John Whitgift,
D.D.,(nb...: Master of Trinity College, Dean of Lincoln, &c.
Afterwards Successively Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of
Canterbury.) The First Portion, Containing the Defence of the Answer to
the Admonition, against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates
I–VI|location=Cambridge, Cambridgeshire|publisher=(...: Printed at the)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20University%20Press [for the
(w: Parker Society)]|year=1572|year_published=1851|section=tract III (Of
the Election of
Ministers)|page=318|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=AVlXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA318|oclc=41953678|passage=Lord,
how dare these men thus '''wring''' the scriptures?}
63 ##* (RQ:Milton Reason chapter=To the Argument of B[ishop] Andrews
and the Primat page=8 passage=Or elſe they vvould ſtraine us out a
certaine figurative Prelat, by '''vvringing''' the collective allegory
of thoſe ſeven Angels into ſeven ſingle Rochets.)
64 ## (lb en obsolete reflexive) To put#Verb (oneself) in a position
by cunning#Adjective or subtle means#Noun; to insinuate.
65 ##* (RQ:Nashe Pierce Penilesse page=23 passage=Drudges, that haue
no extraordinarie giftes of bodie nor of minde, filche themselues into
some noble-mans seruice, either by bribes or by flatterie, and, when
they are there, they so labour it with cap and knee, and ply it with
priuie whisperinges, that they '''wring''' themsleues into his good
opinion ere he be aware.)
66 ##* (RQ:Marston Antonio and Mellida sig=F2 verso=1 page=49
passage=VVe '''vvring''' our ſelues into this vvretched vvorld, / To
pule, and vveepe, exclaime, to curſe and raile, / To fret, and ban the
fates, to ſtrike the earth / As I doe novv.)
67 # (lb en materials science) To slide#Verb (two ultraflat
surface#Noun) together such that their faces bond#Verb.
68 (lb en intransitive)
69 # To be engaged in clasping and twisting (especially the hands),
or exerting pressure.
70 # To twist the body in or as if in pain; to writhe#Verb.
71 # (lb en figuratively)
72 ## To contend, to struggle#Verb; also, to strive#Verb, to
toil#Verb.
73 ##* {RQ:John Heywood Spider|chapter=The Introduction to the
Matter, Showing howe the Flie Chaunced to Fall into the Spiders
Copweb|page=27|passage=Thus chaunce hath (by exchaunge) the flie ſo
trapt, / That ſodainly he loſt his libertee: / The more he '''wrange''',
the faſter was he wrapt [in the spider's web] / And all to thencreaſe of
his jeopardy, (...)}
74 ## To experience#Verb distress, pain, punishment, etc.
75 ##* {RQ:Chapman Charles|sig=B|page=10|passage=[A]ll Ambaſſadours
/ (You knovv) haue chiefly theſe inſtructions; / (...) / [T]o obſerue
the countenances and ſpirites, / Of ſuch as are impatient of reſt; / And
'''vvring''' beneath, ſome priuate diſcontent: (...)}
76 # (lb en mining) Of a lode: to be depleted of ore; to peter or
peter out.
77 # (lb en obsolete) To make#Verb a way out with difficulty.
n.
1 (lb en also figuratively) A powerful squeeze#Verb or twist#Verb
action#Noun.
2 (lb en dated) ''Followed by'' '''down#Preposition''': the product
of wring#Verb, such as cider or wine#Noun.
3 (lb en obsolete) A sharp#Adjective physical#Adjective pain#Noun,
especially in the abdomen; also, mental#Adjective pain or distress#Noun.
n.
(lb en archaic) A device for compress#Verb or press#Verb, especially
for make#Verb cheese#Noun, cider from apple#Noun, or wine#Noun from
grape#Noun.
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
wring
Saksa vb.
(de-v-taivm: wring)
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
wring
Engelska vb.
vrida
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
العصر
From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]
wring //ɹɪŋ//
1. стискам
to hold tightly and press or twist
2. извивам врата
to kill an animal by breaking its neck by twisting
3. изтръгвам
to obtain by force
4. изстисквам, изцеждам чрез извиване
to squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
[obec] ždímati
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
[obec] kroutiti
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
[obec] mačkati
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
[obec] přilnouti (přilnouti k sobě)
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
mačkat
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
vymačkat
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
vymáčknout
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
vyždímat
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
ždímat
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/ (wrung /ɹˈʌŋ/ <>, wrung /ɹˈʌŋ/ <>)
wringen
"he/she wrings" - er/sie wringt
"I/he/she would wring" - ich/er/sie wränge
see: wringing, wrung
From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ]
wring //ɹɪŋ//
1. väännellä, vääntää niskat nurin
to hold tightly and press or twist
2. puristaa
to obtain by force
3. vääntää
to squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out
From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
1. मरोड़ना
"He wrung the sugarcane in the crusher."
From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
cijediti, cijeđenje, sažimanje, stezanje, stiskanje, zavrtanje, zavrtati
From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
1. szorítás
2. facsarás
From English-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-ind ]
wring //ɹɪŋ//
1. remas
to hold tightly and press or twist
2. peras
to squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out
From English-Italian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 : [ freedict:eng-ita ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
estorcere
From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-jpn ]
wring //ɹɪŋ//
絞る
to squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out
From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-nld ]
wring /riŋ/
afdwingen, afpersen, knevelen
From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]
wring /rɪŋ/
1. wring out /ɹˈɪŋ ˈaʊt/ wykręcać
2. [lit] załamywać (hands - ręce)
3. ukręcać
From English-Spanish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.1 : [ freedict:eng-spa ]
wring /riŋ/
arrancar
From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-swe ]
wring //ɹɪŋ//
1. tvinga
to obtain by force
2. vrida ur
to squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out
From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]
wring /ɹˈɪŋ/
1. (wrung) burup sıkmak
2. burmak, bükmek
3. ellerini oğuşturmak
4. zorla söküp çıkarmak veya almak
5. çarpıtmak
6. çok üzmek, incitmek, canını acıtmak
7. zora getirmek, sıkıştırmak
8. buruş, sıkmak.
From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
/ˈɹɪŋ/
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "wring":
afflict, agonize, ail, anamorphism, anamorphosis, asymmetry,
badger, bend, bite, blackmail, bloody, buckle, burn, chafe, claim,
claw, concentrate, contort, contortion, convulse, corkscrew,
crinkle, crook, crookedness, crucify, crumple, cut, decoct, demand,
detorsion, deviation, disproportion, distill, distort, distortion,
distress, essentialize, exact, exaction, excruciate, express,
extort, extortion, fester, force from, fret, gall, give pain,
gnarl, gnaw, gouge, grate, grind, gripe, harrow, hurt, imbalance,
impale, inflame, inflict pain, infuse, intort, irregularity,
irritate, kill by inches, knot, lacerate, lancinate,
levy blackmail, lopsidedness, macerate, martyr, martyrize, meander,
melt down, nip, pain, pierce, pinch, press, press out, prick,
prolong the agony, pry loose from, punish, put to torture, quirk,
rack, rankle, rasp, refine, rend, rend from, render, rending, rip,
rip from, ripping, rub, savage, scallop, scarify, screw,
serpentine, shake down, slink, snake, snatch from, soak, spring,
squeeze, stab, steep, sting, swirl, tear from, tearing, torment,
torsion, tortuosity, torture, try, turn, turn awry, tweak, twine,
twirl, twist, twist and turn, unsymmetry, warp, whirl, whorl, wind,
worm, wound, wrench, wrench from, wrenching, wrest, wresting,
wring from, wring out, wringing, writhe, wry
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
n. 扭绞;
v. 拧,绞出,扭;
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
n. 扭绞,拧,挤,榨
vt. 拧,绞,扭,榨取,勒索,折磨,使痛苦
vi. 蠕动,扭动,绞,扭
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