Wring
verb
To twist and squeeze something to remove its liquid.
She had to wring her clothes out after getting caught in the rain.
Often appears as...
- wring out the clothes
- wring out a cloth
verb
To obtain something with difficulty or effort.
He managed to wring a confession out of the suspect.
Often appears as...
- wring a confession
- wring out a statement
verb
To twist something forcibly.
He wring the wet towel tightly.
Often appears as...
- wring a towel
- wring a cloth
verb
To twist and squeeze something to remove its liquid.
She had to wring her clothes out after getting caught in the rain.
Often appears as...
- wring out the clothes
- wring out a cloth
verb
To obtain something with difficulty or effort.
He managed to wring a confession out of the suspect.
Often appears as...
- wring a confession
- wring out a statement
verb
To twist something forcibly.
He wring the wet towel tightly.
Often appears as...
- wring a towel
- wring a cloth
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Typically Literal
Often used with wet items that retain water.
After the flood, we had to wring out all our towels.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Action
Involves actual twisting motion with hands.
After washing her hair, she wrung out the excess water.
Pro Tip 3/3Complete Removal
Implies removing as much liquid as possible.
Can you help me wring out these sponges?
Pro Tip 1/3Typically Literal
Often used with wet items that retain water.
After the flood, we had to wring out all our towels.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Action
Involves actual twisting motion with hands.
After washing her hair, she wrung out the excess water.
Pro Tip 3/3Complete Removal
Implies removing as much liquid as possible.
Can you help me wring out these sponges?
Pro Tip 1/3Typically Literal
Often used with wet items that retain water.
After the flood, we had to wring out all our towels.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Action
Involves actual twisting motion with hands.
After washing her hair, she wrung out the excess water.
Pro Tip 3/3Complete Removal
Implies removing as much liquid as possible.
Can you help me wring out these sponges?
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Jeff Bezos: The...
Everybody wanted one of these electric washing machines. On the left-hand side, this was the soapy water. And there's a rotor there -- that this motor is spinning. And it would clean your clothes. This is the clean rinse-water. So you'd take the clothes out of here, put them in here, and then you'd run the clothes through this electric wringer. And this was a big deal.
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Gaming can make a better...
wringing your hands -- there's always something specific and important to be done. There are also tons of collaborators. Everywhere you go, hundreds of thousands of people ready to work with you to achieve your epic mission. That's not something we have in real life that easily, this sense that at our fingertips are tons of collaborators.
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A day in the life of a...
Then, she wrings the birds’ necks and cuts them open to examine their entrails for divine messages. Camma is a druid. This means she conducts religious rites, but she also serves as a judge, healer, and scholar,
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C.K. Williams: Poetry...
about healing those even the women, in their best dresses, with beads and sequins sewn on the bodices, even in lipstick and mascara, their hair aflow, could only stand wringing their hands, begging for peace,
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The Nature Purist PIPE Life...
spend the afternoon my philosophy is keep your technology simple things won't go wrong it's not much they can go wrong with this washing machine right here step 2 put it through the old wringer
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You aren't at the mercy...
or worry or anxiety, and it might cause you to, maybe, wring your hands or take a deep breath or even cry. Right? Same physical sensation, same churning stomach, different experience.
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Eleni Gabre-Madhin:...
Well, I'm not here today to lament about the situation, or wring my hands. I am here to tell you that change is in the air. Africa today is not the Africa waiting for aid solutions,
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Why do we love? A...
Ah, romantic love - beautiful and intoxicating, heartbreaking and soul-crushing, often all at the same time. Why do we choose to put ourselves through its emotional wringer?
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The political progress...
my grandmother, in the birthing bed, in labor, hoists herself up on one elbow and wrings that chicken's neck, right? And that is how my mother came into this world.
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What makes a poem … a...
like literature with all the water wrung out of it. Three - poems often feature intense feelings, from Rumi's spiritual poetry to Pablo Neruda's "Ode to an Onion."
Video examples
Jeff Bezos: The...
Everybody wanted one of these electric washing machines. On the left-hand side, this was the soapy water. And there's a rotor there -- that this motor is spinning. And it would clean your clothes. This is the clean rinse-water. So you'd take the clothes out of here, put them in here, and then you'd run the clothes through this electric wringer. And this was a big deal.
Video examples
Gaming can make a better...
wringing your hands -- there's always something specific and important to be done. There are also tons of collaborators. Everywhere you go, hundreds of thousands of people ready to work with you to achieve your epic mission. That's not something we have in real life that easily, this sense that at our fingertips are tons of collaborators.
Video examples
A day in the life of a...
Then, she wrings the birds’ necks and cuts them open to examine their entrails for divine messages. Camma is a druid. This means she conducts religious rites, but she also serves as a judge, healer, and scholar,
Video examples
C.K. Williams: Poetry...
about healing those even the women, in their best dresses, with beads and sequins sewn on the bodices, even in lipstick and mascara, their hair aflow, could only stand wringing their hands, begging for peace,
Video examples
The Nature Purist PIPE Life...
spend the afternoon my philosophy is keep your technology simple things won't go wrong it's not much they can go wrong with this washing machine right here step 2 put it through the old wringer
Video examples
You aren't at the mercy...
or worry or anxiety, and it might cause you to, maybe, wring your hands or take a deep breath or even cry. Right? Same physical sensation, same churning stomach, different experience.
Video examples
Eleni Gabre-Madhin:...
Well, I'm not here today to lament about the situation, or wring my hands. I am here to tell you that change is in the air. Africa today is not the Africa waiting for aid solutions,
Video examples
Why do we love? A...
Ah, romantic love - beautiful and intoxicating, heartbreaking and soul-crushing, often all at the same time. Why do we choose to put ourselves through its emotional wringer?
Video examples
The political progress...
my grandmother, in the birthing bed, in labor, hoists herself up on one elbow and wrings that chicken's neck, right? And that is how my mother came into this world.
Video examples
What makes a poem … a...
like literature with all the water wrung out of it. Three - poems often feature intense feelings, from Rumi's spiritual poetry to Pablo Neruda's "Ode to an Onion."
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Madam C. J. Walker
American Activist
The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.
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Anne Rice
American Novelist
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
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Antonin Scalia
American Judge
Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to protect the states? My court? Ha - we're feds!
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Oscar De La Hoya
American Athlete
I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.
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Lleyton Hewitt
Australian Athlete
I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.
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Thomas Griffith
American Editor
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
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S. J. Perelman
American Writer
The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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John Mayer
American Musician
I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.
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Zig Ziglar
American Author
Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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S. Sreesanth
Indian Athlete
One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.
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Madam C. J. Walker
American Activist
The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.
Quote examples
Anne Rice
American Novelist
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
Quote examples
Antonin Scalia
American Judge
Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to protect the states? My court? Ha - we're feds!
Quote examples
Oscar De La Hoya
American Athlete
I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.
Quote examples
Lleyton Hewitt
Australian Athlete
I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.
Quote examples
Thomas Griffith
American Editor
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
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S. J. Perelman
American Writer
The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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John Mayer
American Musician
I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.
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Zig Ziglar
American Author
Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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S. Sreesanth
Indian Athlete
One emerges as a better person after going through the wringer.
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