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- Dictionarywring/rɪŋ/
verb
- 1. squeeze and twist (something) to force liquid from it: "she wrung the cloth out in the sink" Similar
- 2. break (an animal's neck) by twisting it forcibly: "the chicken shrieked as one of the women wrung its neck"
noun
- 1. an act of squeezing or twisting something.
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to twist a cloth or piece of clothing with your hands to remove water from it: She wrung out the shirt and hung it out to dry. wring something's neck. to kill a bird or other animal by twisting and breaking its neck: I hated doing it but I had to wring their necks or they'd have suffered long, agonising deaths.
The meaning of WRING is to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid. How to use wring in a sentence.
to hold something tightly with both hands and twist it by turning your hands in opposite directions. (also wring out) to twist a cloth or piece of clothing with your hands to remove water from it: She wrung out the shirt and hung it out to dry. wring something's neck. to kill a bird or other animal by twisting and breaking its neck:
to twist and compress, or compress without twisting, in order to force out water or other liquid (often followed by out ): to wring clothes. to extract or expel by twisting or compression (usually followed by out or from ). to affect painfully by or as if by some contorting or compressing action.
1. ( often foll by out) to twist and compress to squeeze (a liquid) from (cloth, etc) 2. ( tr) to twist forcibly: wring its neck. 3. ( tr) to clasp and twist (one's hands), esp in anguish. 4. ( tr) to distress: wring one's heart. 5. ( tr) to grip (someone's hand) vigorously in greeting.
If you wring something out of someone, you manage to make them give it to you even though they do not want to.
To wring something is to twist or squeeze it, usually out of its original shape. If you annoy someone enough, they might threaten to wring your neck. If you do laundry by hand, then you most likely wring out your shirts to get rid of excess water before hanging them out to dry.
Definition of wring verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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WRING definition: to twist a cloth or piece of clothing with your hands to remove water from it: . Learn more.
