Wring

Definition of Wring

v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Wrung Obs. Wringed ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Wringing.]
	1.	To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing. [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.
v. i.	1.	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.
n.	1.	A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.

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