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==English==
{{was wotd|2023|June|16}}

===Pronunciation===
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|image1 = Wringing Out His Shirt (36357594976).jpg
|caption1 = A man wringing out ''(etymology 1, {{senseno|en|squeeze}})'' his [[wet#Adjective|wet]] [[T-shirt]].
|image2 = Wringer (PSF).png
|caption2 = A [[wringer]] can be used to wring ''(etymology 1, {{senseno|en|wringer}})'' wet [[clothes#Noun|clothes]] to [[remove#Verb|remove]] [[excess#Adjective|excess]] [[water#Noun|water]] from them before they are put into a [[dryer#Noun|dryer]].
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* {{enPR|rĭng|a=RP,GA}}, {{IPA|en|/ɹɪŋ/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-ring.ogg|a=GA}}
* {{hmp|en|ring}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɪŋ|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*wrenǵʰ-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|wringen}}, {{m|enm|wryngen}}<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=wringen|pos=v|id=MED53673}}</ref> from {{inh|en|ang|wringan|t=to wring}},<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=v|id=230711|date=December 2022|nodot=1}}; {{R:Lexico|pos=v}}</ref> from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*wringaną|t=to squeeze, twist, wring}}, possibly from {{inh|en|ine-pro|*wrenǵʰ-}}.

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* {{cog|grc|ῥίμφα|t=fast}}
* {{cog|nl|wringen}}
* {{cog|lt|reñgtis|t=to bend down}}
* {{cog|gml|wringen}} ({{cog|nds|wringen}})
* {{cog|ofs|*wringa}} ({{cog|fy|wringe}})
* {{cog|goh|rinkan}}, {{m|goh|ringan}}, {{m|goh|ringan}} ({{cog|gmh|ringen}}, modern {{cog|de|wringen}}, {{cog|de|ringen|t=to wrestle}})
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====Verb====
{{en-verb|wrings|wringing|wrung|past2=wrang|past2_qual=archaic or dialectal|past3=wringed|past3_qual=rare|past_ptc2=wringed|past_ptc2_qual=rare}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}}
## {{senseid|en|squeeze}} ''Often followed by'' '''[[out#Preposition|out]]''': to [[squeeze#Verb|squeeze]] or [[twist#Verb|twist]] (something [[moist#Adjective|moist]]) [[tightly]] so that [[liquid#Noun|liquid]] is [[force out|forced out]].
##: {{syn|en|wring out|Thesaurus:compress}}
##: {{ux|en|I didn’t have a towel so I just '''wrung''' my hair dry.}}
##* {{RQ:Lyly Euphues|part=2|folio=53|passage={{...}} ''[[w:Protogenes|Protagenes]]'' portrai[e]d ''[[w:Venus (mythology)|Venus]]'' vvith a ſponge ſprinkled with ſvvéete vvater, but if once ſhe '''vvrong''' it, it vvould droppe blood: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:John Ford Whore|sig=&#91;F4&#93;|verso=1|page=49|passage=O my belly ſeeths like a Porridge-pot, ſome cold water I ſhall boyle ouer elſe; my whole body is in a ſweat, that you may '''wring''' my ſhirt; feele here— {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Boyle Porosity|chapter=III|pages=10–11|pageref=11|passage=[T]hat greater numbers of them [pores], {{...}} are perforations that paſs quite through the Leather, may, not improbably, be ſhewn by the uſual Practice of Chymiſts, to purify Quick-ſilver by typing it up ſtrictly in a piece of kids or ſheeps Leather, and then '''wringing''' it hard to force it out; {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Poe Pym|chapter=XIII|pages=122–123|pageref=123|passage=[W]e contrived to satisfy the cravings of thirst by suffering the shirts to become saturated, and then '''wringing''' them so as to let the grateful fluid trickle into our mouths.}}
##* {{RQ:Orwell Down and Out|chapter=XXI|page=154|passage=[H]e had sometimes '''wrung''' a dirty dishcloth into a customer’s soup before taking it in, just to be revenged upon a member of the bourgeoisie.}}
### {{senseid|en|wringer}} To squeeze [[water#Noun|water]] from (an [[item#Noun|item]] of [[wet#Adjective|wet]] [[clothing#Noun|clothing]]) by [[pass#Verb|passing]] through a [[wringer]].
###* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Anne Tyler|chapter=1|title=w:Breathing Lessons|series=A Borzoi Book|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Alfred A. Knopf|Alfred A[braham] Knopf]]|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.}}
## {{lb|en|also|figuratively}} ''Often followed by'' '''[[from]]''' ''or'' '''out''': to [[extract#Verb|extract]] (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing, twisting, or otherwise putting [[pressure#Noun|pressure]] on it.
##: {{ux|en|Put the berries into a cheesecloth and '''wring''' the juice into a bowl.}}
##* {{RQ:Coverdale Bible|Judges|6|38|folio=xvi|column=1|passage=And whan he roſe vp early on the morow, he '''wrãge''' [wrange] y&#868; dew out of the [[fleece|fleſe]], and fylled a dyſſhe full of water.}}
##* {{RQ:Evelyn Diary|volume=I|entrydate=21 May 1645|page=178|passage=At the end of this very long walk stands a woman in white marble, in posture of a laundress '''wringing''' water out of a piece of linen, very naturally formed, into a vast lavor the work and invention of [[w:Michelangelo|M[ichel] Angelo Buonarotti]].}}
##* {{RQ:Smollett Roderick Random|volume=I|chapter=XIV|page=107|passage=[He] '''wrung''' the urine out of his perriwig, and lifting up a large ſtone, flung it with ſuch force againſt the ſtreet-door of that house from whence he had been bedewed, that the lock giving way, it flew wide open, {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Ruskin Political Economy of Art|page=17|passage=[Y]ou have to dig the moor and dry the marsh, to bid the morass give forth instead of engulphing, and to '''wring''' the honey and oil out of the rock.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Zora Neale Hurston|chapter=Backstage and the Railroad|editor=w:William Loren Katz|title=w:Dust Tracks on a Road|series=The American Negro: His History and Literature|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher={{w|Arno Press}} and {{w|The New York Times}}|year=1952|year_published=1969|page=128|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/dusttracksonroad00hurs/page/128/mode/1up|oclc=88431|passage=Heinz could have '''wrung''' enough vinegar out of Cally’s look to run his pickle works.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:John Irving|chapter=The Finger|title=[[w:A Prayer for Owen Meany|A Prayer for Owen Meany{{nb...|A Novel}}]]|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=w:William Morrow and Company|year=1989|page=381|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/prayerforowenmeairv00irvi/page/381/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-688-07708-2|passage={{...}} I thought that he was as pleased by the shock value of what he had to say as he was thrilled by the spectacle of '''wringing''' his own blood from the sodden gauze pad into the sodden towel.}}
## {{lb|en|also|figuratively}} To [[hold#Verb|hold]] (someone or something) tightly and [[press#Verb|press]] or twist; to [[wrest#Verb|wrest]].
##: {{synonyms|en|strangle|throttle}}
##: {{ux|en|to '''wring''' someone’s hand (that is, [[shake hands]] vigorously with someone)}}
##: {{ux|en|to '''wring''' the neck of a chicken}}
##* {{RQ:Skelton Poetical Works|volume=I|poem=Magnyfycence|lines=1934–1935|page=288|passage=And some I vysyte with brennynge of fyre; / Of some I '''wrynge''' of the necke lyke a wyre; {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Thomas More Workes|title=Comfort|book=II|page=1170|column=1|passage=[O]ne toke the other by the tip of the finger, for hand would there none be '''wrongẽ''' [wrongen] thorow the grate, {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Marston Iacke Drum|sig=E3|page=78|passage=[W]ith a ſoft ſleeke hand I’le clappe thy cheeke, / And '''wring''' thy fingers vvith an ardent gripe: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Tempest|act=I|scene=ii|page=3|column=1|passage=[I]t is a hint / That '''wrings''' mine eyes too’t.}}
##* {{RQ:Cervantes Shelton Don Quixote|volume=I|chapter=Treating of that which Befell all Don-Quixote His Train in the Inne|part=4|page=340|passage=[T]here iſſued out of the middeſt of the water a ſerpent, of fire, and hee as ſoone as hee perceiued it, leaped vpon her, and hanging by her ſquamie ſhoulders he '''wroong''' her throat ſo ſtraitly betweene both his armes, that the Serpent perceiuing her ſelfe to be well nigh ſtrangled, had no other way to ſaue her ſelfe, but by diuing down into the deeps, {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Herbert Temple|chapter=The Agonie|page=29|passage=Who would know Sinne, let him repair / Unto mount Olivet; there ſhall he ſee / A man ſo '''wrung''' with pains, that all his hair, / His skinne, his garments bloudie be.}}
##* {{RQ:Tatler|author=Steele|issue=137|date=22 February 1710|page=310|passage=Come hither, you dog you, and let me '''wring''' your neck round your shoulders.}}
##* {{RQ:Goldsmith Citizen of the World|volume=II|chapter=Letter LXXVI. From the Same [From Lien Chi Altangi, to Fum Hoam, First President of the Ceremonial Academy at Pekin, in China].|page=62|passage=Towards the middle of the laſt act, {{...}} there is no neceſſity for ſpeaking, they are only to groan at each other, they muſt vary the tones of exclamation and deſpair through the whole theatrical gamut, '''wring''' their figures into every ſhape of diſtreſs, {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 1|volume=I|chapter=VIII|page=158|passage=[I]f the warst come to the warst, it's but '''wringing''' the head o' him about at last.}}
##* {{RQ:Gaskell North and South|volume=I|chapter=The Shadow of Death|page=195|passage=Margaret could not speak for crying; but she '''wrung''' his hand at parting.}}
##* {{RQ:Faulkner Sound and Fury|chapter=April 8, 1928|page=320|passage=Jason stood, slowly '''wringing''' the brim of his hat in his hands.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Aravind Adiga|title=w:The White Tiger|edition=1st UK|location=London|publisher=w:Atlantic Books|year=2008|page=262|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781843547204/page/262/mode/1up|isbn=978-1-84354-720-4|passage=Every chance you got you just stared at yourself in a mirror with open lips, and I had to '''wring''' your ears to make you do any work.}}
### To [[clasp#Verb|clasp]] and twist ([[hand#Noun|hands]]) together due to [[distress#Noun|distress]], [[sorrow#Noun|sorrow]], etc.
###: {{ux|en|to '''wring''' one’s hands with worry}}
###* {{RQ:Beaumont Knight|sig=&#91;H4&#93;|verso=1|page=63|passage=Come you whoſe loues are dead, / And whiles I ſing / Weepe and '''wring''' / Euery hand and euery head, {{...}}}}
###* {{RQ:Smollett Regicide|scene=v|page=56|passage=Ah! wherefore doſt thou '''wring''' thy tender Hands / In woeful Attitude?}}
###* {{RQ:Edgeworth Practical Education|chapter=On Attention|page=83|passage=[P]erſons in violent grief '''wring''' their hands and convulſe their countenances; {{...}}}}
###* {{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; {{...}}}}
## To [[bend#Verb|bend]] or [[strain#Verb|strain]] (something) out of its [[position#Noun|position]]; to [[wrench#Verb|wrench]], to [[wrest]].
##: {{ux|en|to '''wring''' a mast}}
##* {{RQ:Erasmus Newe Testamente|tome=1|title=Edward VI Preface|folio=viii|verso=1|passage=[B]y the couetous prieſtes of [[Baal|Baall]] through defaulte of good & godly Counſayllours, whome (doubte ye not but this wicked [[rabble|rable]] founde meanes to '''wring''' out of fauour, & to remoue awaye from the Kynges preſence) he was ſo [[compassed|coumpaced]], weyghed, perſuaded, woonne, bewitched, peruerted & ſo farre ſeduced: y&#877; (as the ſcripture recordeth), he did eiuil in the ſyght of the Lorde euen after the abominacyons of the heathen.}}
##* {{RQ:Udall Ralph Roister Doister|page=29|passage=Why, he '''wrong''' a club / Once in a fray out of the hande of [[w:Beelzebub|Belzebub]].}}
##* {{RQ:Lyly Euphues|page=295|passage=[N]ow you haue my opinion, you muſt not thinke to '''wring''' me from it, for I had rather be as all women are, obſtinate in mine owne conceipt, then apt to be wrought to others conſtructions.}}
##* {{RQ:King James Version|Leviticus|1|15|page=184|column=1|passage=And the Prieſt ſhall bring it [a dove] vnto the altar, and '''wring''' off his head, and burne it on the altar: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:South Twelve Sermons|volume=VI|chapter=The Seventh and Last Discourse Concerning Temptation. &#91;[[w:First Epistle of John|1 John]] iii. 3.&#93;|date=9 November 1662|page=421|passage=Our Bodies are unhappily made the ''Weapons of Sin''; and therefore if we would overcome that, we muſt by an auſtere Courſe of Duty firſt '''wring''' theſe Weapons out of its Hands.}}
##* {{RQ:Shelley Revolt of Islam|edition=1st|stanza=XLI|page=232|passage=He who but one yet living here can lead, / Or who the life from both their hearts can '''wring''', / Shall be the kingdom's heir, a glorious meed!}}
##* {{RQ:Robert Browning La Saisiaz|page=51|passage=I shall boast it mine—the balsam, bless each kindly wrench that '''wrung''' / From life's tree its inmost virtue, tapped the root whence pleasure sprung, / Barked the bole, and broke the bough, and bruised the berry, left all grace / Ashes in death's stern alembic, loosed elixir in its place!}}
##* {{RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island|chapter=What I Heard in the Apple Barrel|pages=91–92|pageref=92|passage=I'll '''wring''' his calf's head off his body with these hands, Dick!}}
## To [[contort]] or [[screw up]] (the [[face#Noun|face]] or its [[feature#Noun|features]]).
##* {{RQ:Whetstone Rocke of Regard|page=119|passage=Then would I laugh to ſee my lady pout, / And ſmyle when moſt ſhe '''wroung''' her mouth awry; {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Marston Antonio's Revenge|scene=v|sig=C2|verso=1|page=27|passage=VVould'ſt haue me cry, run rauing vp & dovvn, / For my ſons loſſe? vvould'ſt haue me turn rank mad, / Or '''vvring''' my face vvith mimick action; / Stampe, curſe, vveepe, rage, & then my boſome ſtrike?}}
##* {{RQ:Topsell Foure-footed Beastes|chapter=Of Dogges|page=141|passage=[W]hen he [a dog] fauneth vpon a man he '''vvringeth''' his ſk[i]nne in the forehead.}}
##* {{RQ:Scott Marmion|canto=5|stanza=XXXI|page=362|passage=When pain and anguish '''wring''' the brow, / A ministering angel thou!— {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Stevenson Dynamiter|chapter=The Brown Box (concluded)|page=184|passage=He got to bed with these parti-coloured thoughts; passed from one dream to another all night long, the white face of Teresa still haunting him, '''wrung''' with unspoken thoughts; {{...}}}}
## To twist or [[wind#Verb|wind]] (something) into [[coil#Noun|coils]]; to [[coil#Verb|coil]].
## Of a [[thing]] (such as [[footwear]]): to [[pinch#Verb|pinch]] or [[press#Verb|press]] (a person or [[part#Noun|part]] of their [[body#Noun|body]]), [[cause#Verb|causing]] [[pain#Noun|pain]].
##* {{RQ:John Heywood Proverbs|chapter=V|page=121|passage=Myselfe can tell best where my shooe doth '''wring''' mee.|footer=The spelling has been modernized.}}
##* {{RQ:Dekker Middleton Blurt|sig=&#91;A4&#93;|verso=1|page=9|passage=[T]he muſicke likes me not, and I haue a ſhooe '''vvrings''' me to'th heart; beſides I haue a vvomans reaſon, I vvill not daunce, becauſe I vvill not daunce: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Plutarch North Lives|chapter=Aemilius|page=265|passage=Is this not a goodly ſhooe? is it not finely made? and is it not nevve? yet I dare ſaye there is neuer a one of you can tell vvhere it '''vvringeth''' me.}}
##* {{RQ:Cervantes Shelton Don Quixote|volume=II|chapter=Of the Wholesome Discourse that Passed betwixt the Duchesse and Her Damosels with Sancho Pansa, Worthy to be Read and Noted|part=2|page=223|passage={{...}} I vvill let no cobvvebs fall into my eyes, for I knovv vvhere my ſhoo '''vvrings''' me: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Bacon Henry 7|page=37|passage=But for the extirpating of the Rootes and cauſes of the like ''Commotions'' in time to come, the King began to find vvhere his Shooe did '''vvring''' him, and that it vvas his depreſſing of the ''Houſe'' of {{smallcaps|Yorke}}, that did ranckle and feſter the affections of his People.}}
## {{lb|en|archaic|or|Britain|dialectal|also|figuratively}} To cause (someone or something) [[physical#Adjective|physical]] [[harm#Noun|harm]], [[injury#Noun|injury]], or pain; specifically, by [[apply#Verb|applying]] pressure or by twisting; to [[harm#Verb|harm]], to [[hurt#Verb|hurt]], to [[injure]].
##: {{syn|en|wound|wrench|Thesaurus:harm}}
##* {{RQ:Skelton Poetical Works|volume=I|poem=Magnyfycence|line=2073|page=292|passage=A Lorde God, howe the [[gout|gowte]] '''wryngeth''' me by the [[toe|too]]!}}
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1 Q1|act=II|scene=i|page=25|passage=I preethe Tom beat Cuts ſaddle; put a fevv flockes in the point, poor iade is '''vvroong''' in the vvithers, out of all ceſſe.}}
##* {{RQ:Lyly Euphues|page=249|passage=Then good ''Euphues'' '''wring''' not a horſe on the withers, with a falſe ſaddle, neither imagin what I am by thy thoughts, but mine own doings: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Homer Pope Iliad|volume=IV|book=XVI|page=240|lines=192–195|passage=All breathing Death, around their Chief &#91;{{w|Achilles}}&#93; they ſtand, / A grim, terrific, formidable Band [the {{w|Myrmidons}}]: / Grim as voracious VVolves that ſeek the Springs / VVhen ſcalding Thirſt their burning Bovvels '''vvrings'''.}}
## {{lb|en|figuratively}}
### To cause ([[tear#Noun|tears]]) to [[come out]] from a [[person#Noun|person]] or their [[eye#Noun|eyes]].
###* {{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.}}
###* {{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.}}
###* {{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''.}}
###* {{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.}}
###* {{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.}}
### To cause distress or pain to (a person or their [[heart#Noun|heart]], [[soul#Noun|soul]], etc.); to [[distress#Verb|distress]], to [[torment#Verb|torment]].
###: {{synonyms|en|rack|torture|vex|Thesaurus:hurt|Thesaurus:vex}}
###* {{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 '''wrung''' by an uneaſy and ſtreight Fortune; he would have been an excellent Man of buſineſs, {{...}}}}
###* {{RQ:Addison Cato|scene=i|page=3|passage=Oh ''Portius'', didſt thou taſte but half the Griefs / That '''wring''' my Soul, thou cou’dſt not talk thus coldly, {{...}}}}
###* {{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 '''wrung''' my heart, for I am ſick almoſt to fainting, very ſick, my fellow priſoner, yet that ſhall never inſpire me with vengeance.}}
###* {{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.}}
###* {{RQ:Woolf To the Lighthouse|edition=new|chapter=6|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!}}
### To [[obtain]] (something) from or out of a person or thing by [[extortion]] or other [[force#Noun|force]].
###: {{ux|en|The police said they would '''wring''' the truth out of that criminal.}}
###* {{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, {{...}}}}
###* {{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; {{...}}}}
###* {{RQ:Richardson Pamela|volume=I|letter=XXXI|page=168|passage=Torture ſhould not '''vvring''' it from me, I aſſure you.}}
###* {{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.}}
###* {{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, {{...}}}}
###* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Abraham Lincoln|title=[[w:Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address|The [Second] Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln, Delivered in the National Capitol, March 4th, 1865]]|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.}}
###* {{quote-book|en|author=w: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.}}
###* {{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.}}
###* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Robertson Davies|chapter=The Soirée of Illusions|title=[[w:Fifth Business|Fifth Business{{nb...|A Novel}}]]|location=Toronto, Ont.|publisher=w:Macmillan of Canada|year=1970|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, {{...}}}}
### To [[use#Verb|use]] [[effort#Noun|effort]] to [[draw#Verb|draw]] (a [[response]], [[word#Noun|words]], etc.) from or out of someone; to [[generate]] (something) as a response.
###: {{synonyms|en|elicit|provoke}}
###* {{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, {{...}}}}
###* {{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.}}
###* {{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.}}
###* {{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,— {{...}}}}
###* {{RQ:Keats Lamia|poem=Ode to Psyche|page=117|passage=O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, '''wrung''' / By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear,}}
###* {{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.}}
###* {{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.}}
### {{lb|en|obsolete}} To [[afflict]] or [[oppress]] (someone) to [[enforce]] [[compliance]]; to [[extort#Verb|extort]].
###* {{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?}}
###* {{RQ:Hayward Edward 6|page=144|passage=[T]he Merchant aduenturers haue beene often vvronged and '''vvringed''' to the quicke, {{...}}}}
###* {{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.}}
### {{lb|en|obsolete}} To cause (someone) to [[do#Verb|do]] something or to [[think#Verb|think]] a certain [[way#Noun|way]].
###* {{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.}}
### {{lb|en|obsolete}} To [[change#Verb|change]] (something) into another thing.
###* {{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}}.}}
### {{lb|en|obsolete}} To [[give#Verb|give]] ([[teaching#Noun|teachings]], words, etc.) an [[incorrect]] [[meaning#Noun|meaning]]; to twist, to wrest.
###: {{synonyms|en|distort|pervert}}
###* {{quote-book|en|author=w: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}} [[w:Cambridge University Press|University Press]] [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?}}
###* {{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.}}
### {{lb|en|obsolete|reflexive}} To [[put#Verb|put]] (oneself) in a position by [[cunning#Adjective|cunning]] or [[subtle]] [[means#Noun|means]]; to [[insinuate]].
###* {{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.}}
###* {{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.}}
## {{lb|en|materials science}} To [[slide#Verb|slide]] ([[two]] [[ultraflat]] [[surface#Noun|surfaces]]) together such that their faces [[bond#Verb|bond]].
##* {{quote-us-patent|en|author=William E. Hoke|title=Precision Gauge|patent=1,472,837|date=9 April 1919|page=1|pageurl=https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/75/1c/a2/5e691164832ccc/US1472837.pdf|column=2|passage=For a given set of blocks with lengths in multiples of thousandths the lengths may be so selected as to make it possible, by combining different blocks in '''wringing''' contact end to end, to form a series having any desired length, measured in inches and thousandths; {{...}}|footer={{small|An adjective use.}}}}
##* {{quote-journal|en|journal=Bulletin of the National Research Laboratory of Metrology|location=Tokyo|publisher=National Research Laboratory of Metrology|year=1997|page=278|column=2|issn=0451-6109|oclc=637419190|passage=The number of optical '''wringing''' procedures performed for each gauge block was five, and the number of measurements for each '''wringing''' procedure was eleven.|footer={{small|An adjective use.}}}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=Jennifer E. Decker; Nicholas Brown|title=Recent Developments in Traceable Dimensional Measurements: 20–21 June 2001, Munich, Germany|location=Bellingham, Wash.|publisher=[[w:SPIE|Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers]]|year=2001|page=25|isbn=978-0-8194-4096-9|passage=The pack experiment method to evaluate phase correction is valuable in that the differences associated with '''wringing''' two different materials and/or surface finishes between the gauge blocks and the platen may be accounted for in the averaging over the pack gauge blocks.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=Jonghan Jin; Seung-Woo Kim|chapter=Precision Dimensional Metrology Based on a Femtosecond Pulse Laser|editor=Mikhail Grishin|title=Advances in Solid State Lasers: Development and Applications|location=Rijeka, Croatia|publisher=InTech|year=2010|page=186|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=awWQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA186|isbn=978-953-7619-80-0|passage=The uncertainty of '''wringing''' effect is 6.9 nm, which can be determined by '''wringing''' the same gauge block on the base plate repeatedly.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}}
## To be [[engage]]d in clasping and twisting (especially the hands), or [[exert]]ing pressure.
##* {{RQ:Tusser Good Husbandrie|year=1878|chapter=Washing|stanza=3|page=173|passage=Go wash well, saith Sommer, with sunne I shall drie, / go '''wring''' well, saith Winter, with winde so shall I.}}
##* {{RQ:Bunyan Holy War|chapter=Mr. ''Desires-awake'' Goes Again and Takes One ''Wet-eyes'' with Him|page=153|passage={{...}} Mr. ''VVet-eyes'' vvent vvith hands '''vvringing''' together.}}
##* {{RQ:Byron Sardanapalus|act=I|scene=i|page=187|passage={{smallcaps|jacopo foscari}}. They will not banish me again?—No—no, / Let them '''wring''' on; I am strong yet. / {{smallcaps|guard}}. Confess, / And the rack will be spared you.}}
##* {{RQ:Montgomery Anne of the Island|chapter=A Book of Revelation|page=316|passage=The Haunted Wood was full of the groans of mighty trees '''wrung''' in the tempest, and the air throbbed with the thunderous crash of billows on the distant shore.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|author=Elizabeth Metzger Howard|chapter=2|title=Before the Sun Goes Down|location=Garden City, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday & Company]]|year=1946|section=part I (Summer)|page=31|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/beforesungoesdow00howa/page/31/mode/1up|oclc=657021|passage=Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it. {{...}} And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks '''wrang'''.}}
## To twist the body in or as if in pain; to [[writhe#Verb|writhe]].
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing|act=V|scene=i|page=60|passage=No, no, tis all mens office to ſpeake patience / To thoſe that '''vvring''' vnder the loade of ſorrovv {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline|act=II|scene=vi|page=386|column=2|passage=''Bel''[''arius'']. He '''vvrings''' at ſome diſtreſſe. / [[w:Guiderius|''Gui''[''derius'']]]. VVould I could free't.}}
##* {{RQ:John Heywood Spider|chapter=The Spider Takyng Comfort, Entreth in Quarell with the Fliewring|page=40|passage=Oh lord how his feat feete and handes he '''wrang''', / Beſeeching his great god, that day to guide him, / And from his mortall ennemie to deuide him: {{...}}}}
##* {{RQ:Hall Occasionall Meditations|chapter=Upon a Worme|page=170|passage=[H]ovv is it [a worm] vexed vvith the ſcorching beames [of the sun], and '''vvrings''' vp and dovvne, in an helpleſſe perplexity; not finding vvhere to ſhrovvd it ſelfe; hovv obnoxious is it to the ſoules of the ayre, to the feet of men, and beaſts?}}
##* {{RQ:Carlyle Past and Present|chapter=Phenomena|pages=140–141|pageref=140|passage=In hydra-wrestle, giant ‘''Millo''cracy’ so called, a real giant, though as yet a blind one and but half-awake, wrestles and '''wrings''' in choking nightmare, ‘like to be strangled in the partridge-nets of Phantasm-Aristocracy,’ as we said, which fancies itself still to be a giant.}}
## {{lb|en|figuratively}}
### To [[contend]], to [[struggle#Verb|struggle]]; also, to [[strive#Verb|strive]], to [[toil#Verb|toil]].
###* {{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|ieoberdee]], {{...}}}}
### To [[experience#Verb|experience]] distress, pain, [[punishment]], etc.
###: {{syn|en|hurt|suffer|Thesaurus:suffer}}
###* {{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: {{...}}}}
## {{lb|en|mining}} Of a [[lode]]: to be [[deplete]]d of [[ore]]; to [[peter]] or [[peter out]].
## {{lb|en|obsolete}} To [[make#Verb|make]] a way out with [[difficulty]].

=====Conjugation=====
{{en-conj|old=1}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col4|en|wringing wet
|hand wringing
|wringable
|wringbolt
|wringer
|wringing wet
|wring out
|wring-stave
}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|քամել}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|һығыу}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|изстисквам}}, {{t|bg|изцеждам чрез извиване}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|esprémer}}, {{t+|ca|escórrer}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|絞|tr=jiǎo}}, {{t+|cmn|擰|tr=níng}}, {{t+|cmn|扭}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|ždímat}}
* Danish: {{t|da|vride}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|uitwringen}}
* Egyptian: {{t-egy|jꜥf|h=i-a:f}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|premtordi}}, {{t|eo|vringi}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vääntää}}
* French: {{t+|fr|essorer}}
* Friulian: {{t|fur|stuargi}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|espremer}}
* German: {{t+|de|wringen}}, {{t+|de|auswringen}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|στείβω}}, {{t+|el|στραγγίζω}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|סחט|tr=sakhát}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|kinyom}}, {{t+|hu|kicsavar}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|peras}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|spremere}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|絞る|tr=しぼる, shiboru}}
* Khmer: {{t|km|ច្បាច់}}, {{t+|km|ពូត}}
* Latvian: {{t+|lv|griezt}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
* Manx: {{t|gv|faast}}
* Mongolian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t+|mn|мушгих}}
*: Mongolian: {{t|mn|ᠮᠤᠰᠭᠢᠬᠤ}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|teurtre}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|vri}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|vri}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|چلاندن|tr=čelândan}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|wyżymać|impf}}, {{t+|pl|wyżąć|pf}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|torcer}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|stoarce}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|выжима́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|вы́жать|pf}}, {{t+|ru|выкру́чивать|impf}}, {{t+|ru|вы́крутить|pf}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|snìomh}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|исције́дити}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|iscijéditi}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|exprimir}}, {{t+|es|retorcer}}, {{t+|es|escurrir}}, {{t+|es|retorcer}}, {{t+|es|estrujar}}, {{t+|es|lagarear}}
* Swedish: {{t|sv|vrida ur}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|vắt}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to squeeze water from (an item of wet clothing) by passing through a wringer}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|puristaa}}
* Galician: {{t-needed|gl}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to extract (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing, twisting, or otherwise putting pressure on it}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|facsar}}, {{t+|hu|kifacsar}}, {{t+|hu|kisajtol}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to hold (someone or something) tightly and press or twist}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|стискам}}, {{t|bg|извивам врата}} {{qualifier|to kill an animal by twisting its neck}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|retòrcer}}, {{t+|ca|retorçar}}
* Danish: {{t|da|vride}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|wringen}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[vääntää]] [[niskat nurin]]}} {{qualifier|neck}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|retorcer}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|remas}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|kōwiri}} {{qualifier|to kill an animal by twisting its neck}}, {{t|mi|tāwhiri}} {{qualifier|to kill an animal by twisting its neck}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|بورمق|tr=burmak}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|torcer}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|сжима́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|сжать|pf}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|snìomh}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|retorcer}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to clasp and twist (hands) together due to distress, sorrow, etc.}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|väännellä}} {{qualifier|hands}}
* Galician: {{t-needed|gl}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|to bend or strain (something) out of its position|wrench|wrest}}

{{trans-top|to contort or screw up (the face or its features)}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vääntää}}
* Galician: {{t-needed|gl}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|to twist or wind (something) into coils|coil}}

{{trans-top|of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch or press (a person or part of their body), causing pain}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|puristaa}}, {{t+|fi|ahdistaa}}
* Galician: {{t-needed|gl}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|to cause (someone) physical harm, injury, or pain; specifically, by applying pressure or by twisting|harm|hurt|injure}}

{{trans-top|to cause (tears) to come out from a person or their eyes}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vääntää}}
* Galician: {{t-needed|gl}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|to cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart, soul, etc.)|distress|torment}}

{{trans-top|to obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by extortion or other force}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|һығыу}}, {{t|ba|һығып алыу}}, {{t|ba|тартып алыу}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|изтръгвам}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|esprémer}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|afpersen}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|puristaa}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|espremer}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|arrancar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|выжима́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|вы́жать|pf}}, {{t+|ru|вымога́ть|impf}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|исције́дити}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|iscijéditi}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|exprimir}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|tvinga}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|to use effort to draw (a response, words, etc.) from or out of someone|elicit}}

{{trans-top|to slide (two ultraflat surfaces) together such that their faces bond}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|imeyttää}}
* Galician: {{t-needed|gl}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to be engaged in clasping and twisting (especially the hands), or exerting pressure}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vääntyä}}
* Galician: {{t-needed|gl}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|to twist the body in or as if in pain|writhe}}
{{trans-see|to contend, struggle|contend|struggle}}
{{trans-see|to strive, toil|strive|toil}}

{{trans-top|to experience distress, pain, punishment, etc.}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|väännellä}}
* Galician: {{t-needed|gl}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|of a lode: to be depleted of ore|peter}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* Dutch: {{t+check|nl|wringen}}, {{t+check|nl|uitwringen}}
* French: {{t+check|fr|tordre}}
* Interlingua: {{t-check|ia|exprimer}}, {{t-check|ia|torquer}}
{{trans-bottom}}

=====See also=====
* {{l|en|glean}}<!--conceptual unity in figurative senses: scavenging the last marginal bits of value from a mostly depleted source-->

===Etymology 2===
Partly:

* from {{inh|en|enm|wring}}, {{m|enm|wringe|t=twisting or wringing (of the neck)}}, from {{m+|enm|wringen}}, {{m|enm|wryngen|pos=verb}};<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=wring(e|pos=''n.''(2)|noformat=1|id=MED53672}}</ref> and
* from the modern English {{glossary|verb}}.<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=''n.''{{sup|2}}|noformat=1|id=230710|date=December 2021}}</ref>

See further at [[#Etymology 1|etymology 1]].

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|also|figuratively}} A [[powerful]] [[squeeze#Verb|squeezing]] or [[twist#Verb|twisting]] [[action#Noun|action]].
#: {{ux|en|I grasped his hand and gave it a grateful '''wring'''.}}
#* {{RQ:Jonson Cynthia's Revels|act=V|scene=iiii|page=250|passage=The '''''VVring''' by the hand'', and the ''Banquet'' is ours.}}
#* {{RQ:Marston Antonio's Revenge|scene=v|sig=A3|verso=1|page=13|passage=And hauing clipt them vvith pretence of loue, / Haue I not cruſht them vvith a cruell '''vvring'''?}}
#* {{RQ:Chapman Al Fooles|sig=&#91;D4&#93;|verso=1|page=35|passage=Yet do I vnderſtand your darkeſt language, / Your treads ath'toe, your ſecret iogges and '''vvringes''': / Your entercourſe of glaunces: euery tittle / Of your cloſe Amorous rites I vnderſtand, / They ſpeake as loud to mee, as if you ſaid, / My deareſt ''Dariotto'', I am thine.|footer=That is, secret squeezings of the hand.}}
#* {{RQ:Hall Contemplations|version=Works|volume=II|chapter=[[w:Lazarus of Bethany|Lazarus]] Raised|pages=443–444|pageref=444|passage={{w|Martha}} was ever the more active. She, that was before so busily stirring in her house to entertain {{w|Jesus}}, was now as nimble to go forth of her house to meet him. She, in whose face joy had wont to smile upon so Blessed a guest, now salutes him with the sighs and tears and blubbers and '''wrings''' of a disconsolate manner.}}
#* {{RQ:Vanbrugh Relapse|scene=i|page=45|passage=''Lo''[''ry'']. {{...}} I have been in a lamentable fright, Sir, ever ſince your Conſcience had the Impudence to intrude into your Company. / ''Y''[''oung''] ''Faſ''[''hion'']. Be at peace; it vvill come there no more: My Brother has given it a '''vvring''' by the Noſe, and I have kick'd it dovvn Stairs.}}
#* {{RQ:Yonge Daisy Chain|chapter=XVII|page=520|passage={{...}} James, with one '''wring''' of the hand, retreated, while old nurse was nearly hugged to death, declaring all the time that he didn't ought to have come in such a way, terrifying everyone out of their senses!}}
#* {{RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island|chapter=The Man of the Island|page=123|passage=He was still holding me by the wrist, and at that he gave it quite a '''wring'''.}}
#* {{RQ:H. B. Fuller Bertram Cope|page=63|passage=I tried not to give his poor hand too much of a '''wring''' (another of my bad habits); but he took all I gave and even seemed to hang on for a little more.}}
# {{lb|en|dated}} ''Followed by'' '''[[down#Preposition|down]]''': the [[product]] of [[wring#Verb|wringing]], such as [[cider]] or [[wine#Noun|wine]].
#* {{RQ:Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd|volume=II|chapter=Converging Courses|section=III|page=274|passage=She had just got off her mare to look at the last '''wring'''-down of cider for the year; {{...}}}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} A [[sharp#Adjective|sharp]] [[physical#Adjective|physical]] [[pain#Noun|pain]], especially in the [[abdomen]]; also, [[mental#Adjective|mental]] pain or [[distress#Noun|distress]].
#* {{RQ:Estienne Liebault Maison Rustique|chapter=Of the Carter, or Horsekeeper|page=195|passage=Hens dung ſvvallovved [by a horse] by hap, bringeth frets and '''vvrings''' in the bellie: {{...}}}}
#* {{RQ:Marcellinus Holland Roman Historie|chapter=II|chaptername=Being Departed out of Antioch, He was Troubled and Haunted with Strange Signes and Dreames: But afterwards Comforted againe by Sundrie Presages, and the Arrivall of a Most Puissant Armadoe, He Proceedeth in His Intended Voyage|pages=220–221|pageref=220|passage=[T]here vvas brought unto him an horſe named Babylonius, vvhich happening to be ſore vexed vvith a ſuddaine gripe or '''vvring''' in his belly, fell dovvne, and vvhiles hee vvas not able to endure the paine, vvallovveth along, and happeneth to beſprent his capariſon and ornaments richly garniſhed vvith gold and precious ſtones. At vvhich ſtrange ſight he tooke great joy, and cryed out, vvith the applauſe of thoſe next about him, That Babylon vvas fallen, and lay along on the ground diſpoyled of all her ornaments.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Robert Monro|chapter=The First Observation|title=Monro his Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (Called Mac-Keyes Regiment) Levied in August 1626.{{nb...|By Sr. Donald Mac-Key Lord Rhees, Colonell for His Majesties Service of Denmark, and Reduced after the Battaile of Nerling, to One Company in September 1634. at Wormes in the Paltz Discharged in Severall Duties and Observations of Service; First under the Magnanimous King of Denmark, during His Warres against the Emperour; afterward, under the Invincible King of Sweden, during His Majesties Life Time; and since, under the Directour Generall, the Rex-chancellor Oxensterne and His Generalls. Collected and Gathered together at Spare-houres, by Colonell Robert Monro [...] for the Use of All Worthie Cavaliers Favouring the Laudable Profession of Armes. To which is Annexed the Abridgement of Exercise, and Divers Practicall Observations, for the Younger Officer His Consideration; Ending with the Souldiers Meditations Going on Service.}}|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604165611/https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A07628.0001.001|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed by}} William Iones{{nb...|in Red-Crosse streete}}|year=1637|page=3|pageurl=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A07628.0001.001/20:9.2?vid=15340|oclc=606526863|passage=When we have good dayes we slight them, when they are gone, we sinke under the '''wring''' of sorrow, for their losse; and want teacheth vs the worth of things more truely: and it is a true saying, ''Blessings appeare not, till they bee vanished''.}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|powerful squeezing or twisting action}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vääntö}}
* Galician: {{t-needed|gl}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|product of wringing}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[puristettu]] [[neste]]}} {{qualifier|wrung liquid}}
* Galician: {{t-needed|gl}}
* Macedonian: {{t-needed|mk}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Etymology 3===
From {{inh|en|enm|wring}}, {{m|enm|wringe}}, {{m|enm|wrynge|t=a press, especially for olives or wine}}{{nb...|wrong|otherforms=1}},<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=wring(e|pos=''n.''(1)|noformat=1|id=MED53671}}</ref> from {{inh|en|ang|wringe}}, from {{m|ang|wringan|pos=verb}}:<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=''n.''{{sup|1}}|noformat=1|id=230709|date=December 2021}}</ref> see further at [[#Etymology 1|etymology 1]].

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|archaic}} A [[device]] for [[compress#Verb|compressing]] or [[press#Verb|pressing]], especially for [[make#Verb|making]] [[cheese#Noun|cheese]], [[cider]] from [[apple#Noun|apples]], or [[wine#Noun|wine]] from [[grape#Noun|grapes]].
#: {{synonyms|en|press}}
#* {{RQ:Evelyn Sylva|title=Observations|page=43|passage=If you boil ''Cider'' eſpecial care muſt be had to put it into the furnace immediately from the '''vvring'''; othervviſe, if it be let ſtand in ''Vats'', or veſſels, tvvo or three days after the preſſure, the beſt and moſt ''ſpiritous'' part vvill aſcend and fly avvay in the ''vapours'' vvhen fire is put under it; {{...}} A ''Friend'' of mine having made proviſion of ''Apples'' for ''Cider'', vvhereof ſo great a part vvere found ''rotten'' vvhen the time of grinding them came, that they did as 'tvvere vvaſh the room vvith their juice, through vvhich they vvere carried to the '''vvring''', had ''Cider'' from them not only paſſable, but exceeding good; {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Hugh Stafford|chapter=Sect[ion] VI. Of Proper Vessels for Receiving the Cyder for Its Fermentation; the Vigilance, Exact Care, and Attention Required in the First Fermentation of Cyder for Making It Sweet, and as Long as It Continues in a Fermenting State.|title=A Treatise on Cyder-making, Founded on Long Practice and Experience; with a Catalogue of Cyder-apples of Character, in Herefordshire and Devonshire.{{nb...|Their Different Qualities and Applications in Making either Mellow or Rough Cyder; and the Whole Process of Cyder-making throughout. With Instructions for Meliorating Cyder, Preservatives, and Remedies for Preventing and Curing the Diseases Incident to Cyder. To which is Prefixed, a Dissertation on Cyder and Cyder-fruit, by Hugh Stafford, Esq; of Pynes in Devonshire.}}|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed for}} [[w:Edward Cave|E[dward] Cave]],{{nb...|at St. John’s Gate.}}|year=1753|page=48|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vao6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA48|oclc=29578549|passage=In order to avoid a great deal of trouble, and to perform the work more effectually, by diveſting the nevv made Cyder of vvhat pummice and other impurities remain; after ſtraining it through a hair ſieve, on its coming from the '''VVring''', or Preſs, it is neceſſary to be provided vvith a large open vat, keeve, or clive, vvhich vvill contain a vvhole pounding, or making of Cyder; or as much as can be preſſed in one day: {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=“a Practical Man” [pseudonym]|chapter=Part IV. Of Cider, Perry, Mead, and Vinegar.|title=The Vintner’s, Brewer’s, Spirit Merchant’s, and Licensed Victualler’s Guide;{{nb...|Containing the History, Theory, and Practice of Manufacturing Wines, Foreign and Domestic, Malt Liquors; Cider; Perry; Vinegar; Spirits; Liqueurs; Essences; Cordials, ane Compounds. An Extensive Collection of the Most Approved Receipts, Applicable to the Various Subjects, Many of which were Never before Published. Numerous Important Hints on Cellaring, and the General Management of All the Articles Enumerated; the Whole Carefully Corrected by Recent Experiments, and Collected from the Best Authorities. Also, a Description of the Saccharometer, and the Various Hydrometers, with Their Uses. Tables, Shewing the Difference in Quantity and Value between the Old and New Imperial Measures. Selections from, and Abstracts of, All the Acts of Parliament Relating to the Excise Laws, Licences, and the Laws Affecting Innkeepers, Publicans, &c. Together with Various Useful Tables, and Miscellaneous Matters, for Constant Reference. By a Practical Man. The Whole Arranged, with Particular Attention to the Interests of Those to whom It is Addressed, as well as for the Use of Private Families, Gentlemen’s Butlers, &c.}}|location=London|publisher=W. Whetton,{{nb...|Fleet Street; J. M. Richardson, Cornhill; Gossling and Egley, New Bond Street; and H. R. Thomas, Hanover Street, Hanover Square.}}|year=1826|page=216|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=w3AqcyOFlcIC&pg=PA216|oclc=57332775|passage=Take any quantity of cider that is old, strong, harsh, or of an inferior quality, and add to it the same quantity of cider from the '''wring''', or press; rouse it up well, and fix it in a warm place, or in the sun, which is certainly the best for its progress; {{...}}}}
#* {{RQ:Hardy Tess|volume=I|chapter=XVII|page=226|passage=Tess {{...}} gradually fell asleep again, the words of her informant coming to her along with the smell of cheeses in the adjoining cheese-loft, and the measured dripping of the whey from the '''wrings''' downstairs.}}
#* {{RQ:Hardy Tess|volume=II|chapter=XXIII|page=32|passage=They tossed and turned on their little beds, and the cheese-'''wring''' dripped monotonously downstairs.}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|cider-wring}}
* {{l|en|wring-house}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-see|device for compressing or pressing|press}}

===References===
<references/>

===Further reading===
* {{pedia|wringing|wringing (disambiguation)}}
* {{R:Century 1911}}
* {{R:Webster 1913}}

{{cln|en|class 3 strong verbs|irregular verbs}}

==Dutch==

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|nl|Nl-wring.ogg}}

===Verb===
{{head|nl|verb form}}

# {{infl of|nl|wringen||bare-verb}}

==Middle English==

===Verb===
{{head|enm|verb}}

# {{alt form|enm|wryngen}}

==Scots==

===Verb===
{{sco-verb|wrings|wringin|wrang|wrong}}

# to {{l|en|wring}}