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WRING, pret. and pp. wringed and wrung. The latter is chiefly used.

1. To twist to turn and strain with violence as, to wring clothes in washing.

2. To squeeze to press to force by twisting as, to wring water out of a wet garment.

3. To writhe as, to wring the body in pain.

4. TO pinch.

The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.

If he had not been too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune--

5. To distress to press with pain.

Didst thou taste but half the griefs, that wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly.

6. To distort to pervert.

How dare these men thus wring the Scriptures?

7. To persecute with extortion.

These merchant adventurers have been often wronged and wringed to the quick.

8. To bend or strain out of its positions, as, to wring a mast.

To wring off, to force off or separate by wringing as, to wring off the head of a fowl.

To wring out,

1. To force out to squeeze out by twisting as, to wring out dew or water. Judges 6 .

2. To free from a liquor by wringing as, to wring out clothes.

To wring from, to force from by violence to extort as revenues wrung from the poor to wring from one his rights to wring a secret from one.

WRING, To writhe to twist as with anguish.

WRING, n. Action of anguish.