Definition of wring in English:

wring

verbwrung rɪŋrɪŋ

[with object]

1Squeeze and twist (something) to force liquid from it.
绞，拧
she wrung the cloth out in the sink
她在水池里把布拧干。
Example sentencesExamples
- Next, dissolve some pure soap flakes in warm water and rub all over the furniture, paying careful attention to the soiled areas, with a towel wrung out in this soapy water.
- We would walk off after each scene; literally wringing our shirts dry of sweat.
- The heart twists blood out the same way you'd wring a towel to get water out.
- Ellianne watched her brother soak the linen, wring it and press it to her eyes.
- You had to watch every garment as it was wrung, in order that it did not wrap over the top roller and become entangled.
- She heard the sound of water being wrung from a cloth and felt its damp warmth pressed to her lip- and a searing stab of pain!
- Prop maker Peter Greenwood found a real mangle so the dame can wring clothes in the panto's slapstick scenes.
- He wrung out his cloth and began wiping spilled ale off the counter.
- Once the vat was emptied, the crowd of family and friends clapped and cheered and we were given strict instructions after changing not to wring the clothes out - for this would squeeze out the good that had been done.
- Gently wipe away all traces of the cleanser with a face washer wrung out in tepid water, rinsing at least twice more in warm water.
- Blanch the spinach until wilted, then drain well, wringing thoroughly with your hands until it's dry.
- Victoria wrung out the washcloth into the basin and hung it on its peg.
- He lifted it out, wrung it, and pressed the cloth against his forehead.
- Debbie looked satisfied, and wrung out the dishcloth more cheerfully.
- I wrung out a cold washrag, let it soak in the hot water as I brushed my hair, then braided it into a tight braid in the back of my head.
- Gently wipe away all traces of the cleansing lotion with a flannel wrung out in hand-hot water, rinsing at least twice more in hot water.
- Then, over your eyes, place a soft, scented washcloth that has been wrung out in warm lavender water (two cups water with five drops lavender essential oil).
- The was a light knock on the door and Sister Nicci stood wringing out Cassandra's hair and shaking her hands then opened the door.
- So as the three of us dried off, wrung out our suits, dried our hair, and got dressed as we discussed Möbius, their eclectic original music, and their profound musicianship.
- Kou wrung out his wet clothes and set them over the side of the tub.
Synonyms
twist, squeeze, screw, scrunch, knead, press, mangle
dry, squeeze dry, screw the water out of
1. 1.1with object and adverbial Extract (liquid) by squeezing and twisting something.
  绞出，拧出
  I wrung out the excess water
  我把多余的水拧出来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He found a nearby hotel, wrung the water from his clothes, and went to have a drink.
  I wrung out the last bit of water in my dress over Lokre and he panted happily, his tail wagging.
  Sitting up, I gather all my hair in my hand and wring out the water onto his lap.
  Yet Strauss manages to create an opera which wrings every dramatic drop from the text.
  The dew will gather on the material, which can then be wrung out into a container.
  Not only could fat be wrung out of the bread, there were dark foreign objects within its matrix, which upon further investigation turned out to be little globules of maple syrup.
  I had to change my shirt when I got back to our place because you could have wrung the sweat out of the one I'd been wearing.
  It took me about a year afterwards to wring out a tear.
  I'll wring the last drop of blood out of it.
  We pull them out, rinse them in clean water and wring out the excess water.
  It was a performance that could have wrung tears from a stone.
  Dampen with water and wring out all the excess moisture.
  "Yeah, " I said, wringing more water out of my clothes.
  It was the sort of rain that resembled water being wrung out of a dishcloth - droplets the size of marbles and musty-smelling to boot.
  Viney hypothesizes that as the raw liquid silk squeezes through the duct, water is wrung out of the protein and calcium is added.
  Dampen a towel in the mixture and wring out all the excess moisture.
2. 1.2 Squeeze (someone's hand) tightly, especially with sincere emotion.
  （真诚地）紧抓，紧握（某人的手）
  he fervently wrung Rose's hand
  Example sentencesExamples
  Ice let go of his hand to wring hers rather nervously,
  Her hands, which had formerly been clasped in her lap, were now being wrung nervously, her fingers gripping and squeezing those of the other hand and vice-versa.
3. 1.3with object and adverbial Obtain (something) with difficulty or effort.
  尽力索取，强行取得
  few concessions were wrung from the government
  从政府那里几乎没得到什么让步。
  Example sentencesExamples
  That's what she got, getting high marks from critics for wringing every ounce of effort from her team.
  More-realistic animated characters take more time to create, and efficiencies have to be wrung from elsewhere in production.
  Specifically it refers to peasants displaced from farmland when it gets increasingly difficult for them to wring a decent livelihood from the soil, which faces steady encroachment as a result of urban development.
  In the unprecedented action, contractors and workers joined forces to wring improvements out of four companies benefiting from the state's home building boom.
  Dylan's vocals are quite muscular; he attacks the lyrics like a boxer, shouting, growling and bending words in effort to wring new meanings from them.
  But protesters have wrung a promise from city planning bosses that they will look into making Rockstone Lane a conservation area so future development is more in keeping with the road.
  This quarter, companies are still wringing every bit of productivity they can from their existing workforces.
  For those readers who are accustomed to more detailed explications, the chapters will read less as case studies and more as efforts to wring from Freud's original texts some interpretive potential.
  Any successful legal effort to wring such material from a newsroom is potentially worrisome, because it establishes a precedent.
  I was amazed at how pristine a picture the studio was able to wring from the thirty year-old print.
  He actually bends over the steering wheel as if to wring an extra couple of miles out of the car.
  But campaigners argue that such promises are easily broken when private companies try to wring more profits from such projects.
  Despite her best efforts, Isobel could rarely wring a smile out of Keenan.
  The congressman also pressed Ergen on whether the combined company would wring price concessions from programmers.
  He wrung the script, page by page from Thomas over seven years.
  This makes the unions more effective at actually wringing concessions out of companies, since it effectively removes the competitive pressures on them.
  In the month following the uprising, the political opposition wrung more concessions from the oppressive regime than they had in the previous 50 years.
  Scientists now fear the bruising experience will make it more difficult to wring cash out of the government for similar ambitious projects in the future.
  Additionally, while my parks all turn a handsome profit, I don't spend a lot of time playing with the cost of the hamburgers at the concession stands to wring out every last dime.
  Guiseley wrung one final effort out of Henry before the final whistle and all in all a draw was a fair result.
  Synonyms
  extract, elicit, force, coerce, exact, extort, wrest, wrench, screw, squeeze, milk
  informal bleed
2Break (an animal's neck) by twisting it forcibly.
扭断（动物的脖子）
the chicken shrieked as one of the women wrung its neck
humorous I'll wring her neck when I lay hands on her
Example sentencesExamples
- Her hands were starting to itch to wring both the town head's and Cody's necks.
- It's operated by a centrifugal clutch and gives the buggy a far better top speed than a single geared model, and gives the engine a break from not wringing its own neck, trying to hit top speed with only one gear.
- It took everything inside of him to keep from jumping over the table and wringing the man's neck.
- Let's hope the two don't wring each other's necks during their stay together.
- Oh, he didn't know how bad I wanted to wring his neck!
- Doc's hands hung loose by his sides like fat geese with their necks wrung.
- The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.
- Phillip Chaussier, after all, was a friend - one whose neck she usually would have loved to wring, were she only tall enough to reach it - but a friend nevertheless.
- To paraphrase Dr. Seuss, stop wringing the hands that should wring his neck!
- Back at the peg, its neck will be wrung to kill it.
- The unfortunate chickens that were contaminated by the pigeon droppings we were forced to kill by wringing their necks.
- We've become so removed from the reality of obtaining our food supply that almost no one knows how to wring - or would dare to wring - a chicken's neck.
- When the chicken is for Legba, you've got to wring its neck.
- I bellowed, lunging for Cousin Liam and wringing him around the neck.
- Tobie shrieked, almost wringing her best friend's neck.
- I expect him to break into a strangled stutter as I wring his neck, to beg for his life.
- Thus our instincts certainly cause us to believe that the sun will rise tomorrow, but we may be in no better a position than the chicken which unexpectedly has its neck wrung.
- Then I find myself at Wal-Mart surrounded by screaming children whose chubby little necks I want to wring, and reality kicks in.
- Part of me couldn't believe that Cleo would go through such methods just to steal off me, but the other part wanted to wring her scrawny little neck.
- My stomach lurched as I threw myself at Roahin, doing anything I could to wring his scrawny, traitorous, lying, cheating little neck.
3Cause pain or distress to.
使痛苦，使苦恼
the letter must have wrung her heart
那封信一定使她很伤心。
Example sentencesExamples
- He wrote an eloquent one, sitting at the computer on the far end of the living room as the family talked, gasping out sobs as he wrote that wrung my heart.
- The narrative material is obviously shaped in order to wring the audience's melodramatic heart.
- I stared at the picture, something new and foreign squeezing my heart and wringing it dry.
- May watched the mer-woman helplessly, wrung with pity and cursing her terrible fate.
- My heart felt like it was being wrung every time he spoke.
- The reason I wrote and posted this chapter, even though it wrung at my heart while I did so, was because writing - in any form - makes me feel better.
Synonyms
rend, tear at, harrow, pierce, stab, wound, lacerate, rack
distress, pain, hurt, torment, torture

noun rɪŋrɪŋ

An act of squeezing or twisting something.
绞出，拧出
Example sentencesExamples
- I rinse my brush in hot water, warm water and then give it a slight "wring".
- Do you go steady with the brush for very long before you give it a wring?
- Most of all I like that you can roll it up in wet clothing, give it a wring, and it removes maybe 50% of the water before hanging the clothes to dry.

Phrases

wring one's hands

Clasp and twist one's hands together as a gesture of great distress, especially when one is powerless to change the situation.
苦恼地（或绝望地）绞拧双手
she was wringing her hands in agitation
there was little they could do about it except wring their hands
Example sentencesExamples
- This needs real leadership from the international community to avoid a situation where everyone's just wringing their hands and watching the situation get worse and worse.
- She wrung her own tiny hands, peering up and down the street for any more sign of the shiny officers.
- Most of the passengers had moved as far away from him as possible and one lady kept glancing at him and wringing her hands together.
- Still, I'm perfectly willing to spend the first few days of the month wringing my hands over the situation.
- She wrung her hands together as she struggled with how to announce the news.
- I wrung my hands together and buried my face into my hands.
- Bernie wrung his hands together nervously as he sat at Duncan's desk.
- He was on the verge of tears, and he wrung his hands together worriedly.
- She wrung her hands together while she nervously scanned the room for Devin.
- Angelos glimpsed at Evelyn, who was suddenly looking nervous as she wrung her hands together and intently stared at the yellowing linoleum flooring.

Origin

Old English wringan (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch wringen, also to wrong.

wrong from Old English:
An Old English word from Old Norse rangr ‘awry, unjust’, which first meant ‘crooked, curved, or twisted’ and is related to wring (Old English). Until the 17th century the wr- would have been pronounced, and there was obviously something about the sound that suggested the idea of twisting—many English words beginning with wr-, such as wrist, writhe, and wreathe (all OE), contain the notion. Although to get the wrong end of the stick now means ‘to misunderstand something’, the original sense seems to have been ‘to come off worse’. The example in The Swell's Night Guide, a guide to London low life published in 1846, gives an idea of what was wrong with the ‘wrong end’: ‘Which of us had hold of the crappy…end of the stick?’ The proverb two wrongs don't make a right dates from the late 18th century. The Hungarian-born psychiatrist Thomas Szasz summed up the feelings of many when he said in 1973: ‘Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.’

Rhymes

Beijing, bing, bring, Chungking, cling, ding, dingaling, fling, I Ching, king, Kunming, ling, Ming, Nanjing, Peking, ping, ring, sing, Singh, sling, spring, sting, string, swing, Synge, thing, ting, wing, Xining, zing

Definition of wring in US English:

wring

verbrɪŋriNG

[with object]

1Squeeze and twist (something) to force liquid from it.
绞，拧
she wrung the cloth out in the sink
她在水池里把布拧干。
Example sentencesExamples
- Gently wipe away all traces of the cleansing lotion with a flannel wrung out in hand-hot water, rinsing at least twice more in hot water.
- We would walk off after each scene; literally wringing our shirts dry of sweat.
- She heard the sound of water being wrung from a cloth and felt its damp warmth pressed to her lip- and a searing stab of pain!
- Kou wrung out his wet clothes and set them over the side of the tub.
- You had to watch every garment as it was wrung, in order that it did not wrap over the top roller and become entangled.
- Prop maker Peter Greenwood found a real mangle so the dame can wring clothes in the panto's slapstick scenes.
- He lifted it out, wrung it, and pressed the cloth against his forehead.
- I wrung out a cold washrag, let it soak in the hot water as I brushed my hair, then braided it into a tight braid in the back of my head.
- Then, over your eyes, place a soft, scented washcloth that has been wrung out in warm lavender water (two cups water with five drops lavender essential oil).
- So as the three of us dried off, wrung out our suits, dried our hair, and got dressed as we discussed Möbius, their eclectic original music, and their profound musicianship.
- The was a light knock on the door and Sister Nicci stood wringing out Cassandra's hair and shaking her hands then opened the door.
- He wrung out his cloth and began wiping spilled ale off the counter.
- The heart twists blood out the same way you'd wring a towel to get water out.
- Once the vat was emptied, the crowd of family and friends clapped and cheered and we were given strict instructions after changing not to wring the clothes out - for this would squeeze out the good that had been done.
- Next, dissolve some pure soap flakes in warm water and rub all over the furniture, paying careful attention to the soiled areas, with a towel wrung out in this soapy water.
- Gently wipe away all traces of the cleanser with a face washer wrung out in tepid water, rinsing at least twice more in warm water.
- Ellianne watched her brother soak the linen, wring it and press it to her eyes.
- Victoria wrung out the washcloth into the basin and hung it on its peg.
- Blanch the spinach until wilted, then drain well, wringing thoroughly with your hands until it's dry.
- Debbie looked satisfied, and wrung out the dishcloth more cheerfully.
Synonyms
twist, squeeze, screw, scrunch, knead, press, mangle
1. 1.1 Extract (liquid) by squeezing and twisting something.
  绞出，拧出
  I wrung out the excess water
  我把多余的水拧出来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I'll wring the last drop of blood out of it.
  It took me about a year afterwards to wring out a tear.
  Dampen a towel in the mixture and wring out all the excess moisture.
  We pull them out, rinse them in clean water and wring out the excess water.
  It was the sort of rain that resembled water being wrung out of a dishcloth - droplets the size of marbles and musty-smelling to boot.
  The dew will gather on the material, which can then be wrung out into a container.
  He found a nearby hotel, wrung the water from his clothes, and went to have a drink.
  It was a performance that could have wrung tears from a stone.
  Not only could fat be wrung out of the bread, there were dark foreign objects within its matrix, which upon further investigation turned out to be little globules of maple syrup.
  Viney hypothesizes that as the raw liquid silk squeezes through the duct, water is wrung out of the protein and calcium is added.
  Dampen with water and wring out all the excess moisture.
  Yet Strauss manages to create an opera which wrings every dramatic drop from the text.
  I had to change my shirt when I got back to our place because you could have wrung the sweat out of the one I'd been wearing.
  I wrung out the last bit of water in my dress over Lokre and he panted happily, his tail wagging.
  Sitting up, I gather all my hair in my hand and wring out the water onto his lap.
  "Yeah, " I said, wringing more water out of my clothes.
2. 1.2 Break (an animal's neck) by twisting it forcibly.
  扭断（动物的脖子）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her hands were starting to itch to wring both the town head's and Cody's necks.
  The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.
  To paraphrase Dr. Seuss, stop wringing the hands that should wring his neck!
  My stomach lurched as I threw myself at Roahin, doing anything I could to wring his scrawny, traitorous, lying, cheating little neck.
  Oh, he didn't know how bad I wanted to wring his neck!
  I expect him to break into a strangled stutter as I wring his neck, to beg for his life.
  I bellowed, lunging for Cousin Liam and wringing him around the neck.
  Tobie shrieked, almost wringing her best friend's neck.
  It's operated by a centrifugal clutch and gives the buggy a far better top speed than a single geared model, and gives the engine a break from not wringing its own neck, trying to hit top speed with only one gear.
  Let's hope the two don't wring each other's necks during their stay together.
  It took everything inside of him to keep from jumping over the table and wringing the man's neck.
  Doc's hands hung loose by his sides like fat geese with their necks wrung.
  Then I find myself at Wal-Mart surrounded by screaming children whose chubby little necks I want to wring, and reality kicks in.
  The unfortunate chickens that were contaminated by the pigeon droppings we were forced to kill by wringing their necks.
  We've become so removed from the reality of obtaining our food supply that almost no one knows how to wring - or would dare to wring - a chicken's neck.
  When the chicken is for Legba, you've got to wring its neck.
  Thus our instincts certainly cause us to believe that the sun will rise tomorrow, but we may be in no better a position than the chicken which unexpectedly has its neck wrung.
  Phillip Chaussier, after all, was a friend - one whose neck she usually would have loved to wring, were she only tall enough to reach it - but a friend nevertheless.
  Part of me couldn't believe that Cleo would go through such methods just to steal off me, but the other part wanted to wring her scrawny little neck.
  Back at the peg, its neck will be wrung to kill it.
3. 1.3 Squeeze (someone's hand) tightly, especially with sincere emotion.
  （真诚地）紧抓，紧握（某人的手）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her hands, which had formerly been clasped in her lap, were now being wrung nervously, her fingers gripping and squeezing those of the other hand and vice-versa.
  Ice let go of his hand to wring hers rather nervously,
4. 1.4 Obtain (something) with difficulty or effort.
  尽力索取，强行取得
  few concessions were wrung from the government
  从政府那里几乎没得到什么让步。
  Example sentencesExamples
  More-realistic animated characters take more time to create, and efficiencies have to be wrung from elsewhere in production.
  The congressman also pressed Ergen on whether the combined company would wring price concessions from programmers.
  Additionally, while my parks all turn a handsome profit, I don't spend a lot of time playing with the cost of the hamburgers at the concession stands to wring out every last dime.
  In the unprecedented action, contractors and workers joined forces to wring improvements out of four companies benefiting from the state's home building boom.
  Dylan's vocals are quite muscular; he attacks the lyrics like a boxer, shouting, growling and bending words in effort to wring new meanings from them.
  But protesters have wrung a promise from city planning bosses that they will look into making Rockstone Lane a conservation area so future development is more in keeping with the road.
  Specifically it refers to peasants displaced from farmland when it gets increasingly difficult for them to wring a decent livelihood from the soil, which faces steady encroachment as a result of urban development.
  I was amazed at how pristine a picture the studio was able to wring from the thirty year-old print.
  For those readers who are accustomed to more detailed explications, the chapters will read less as case studies and more as efforts to wring from Freud's original texts some interpretive potential.
  Any successful legal effort to wring such material from a newsroom is potentially worrisome, because it establishes a precedent.
  In the month following the uprising, the political opposition wrung more concessions from the oppressive regime than they had in the previous 50 years.
  This makes the unions more effective at actually wringing concessions out of companies, since it effectively removes the competitive pressures on them.
  This quarter, companies are still wringing every bit of productivity they can from their existing workforces.
  But campaigners argue that such promises are easily broken when private companies try to wring more profits from such projects.
  He wrung the script, page by page from Thomas over seven years.
  Guiseley wrung one final effort out of Henry before the final whistle and all in all a draw was a fair result.
  Scientists now fear the bruising experience will make it more difficult to wring cash out of the government for similar ambitious projects in the future.
  That's what she got, getting high marks from critics for wringing every ounce of effort from her team.
  He actually bends over the steering wheel as if to wring an extra couple of miles out of the car.
  Despite her best efforts, Isobel could rarely wring a smile out of Keenan.
  Synonyms
  extract, elicit, force, coerce, exact, extort, wrest, wrench, screw, squeeze, milk
5. 1.5 Cause pain or distress to.
  使痛苦，使苦恼
  the letter must have wrung her heart
  那封信一定使她很伤心。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The narrative material is obviously shaped in order to wring the audience's melodramatic heart.
  The reason I wrote and posted this chapter, even though it wrung at my heart while I did so, was because writing - in any form - makes me feel better.
  May watched the mer-woman helplessly, wrung with pity and cursing her terrible fate.
  I stared at the picture, something new and foreign squeezing my heart and wringing it dry.
  My heart felt like it was being wrung every time he spoke.
  He wrote an eloquent one, sitting at the computer on the far end of the living room as the family talked, gasping out sobs as he wrote that wrung my heart.
  Synonyms
  rend, tear at, harrow, pierce, stab, wound, lacerate, rack

nounrɪŋriNG

An act of squeezing or twisting something.
绞出，拧出
Example sentencesExamples
- Most of all I like that you can roll it up in wet clothing, give it a wring, and it removes maybe 50% of the water before hanging the clothes to dry.
- I rinse my brush in hot water, warm water and then give it a slight "wring".
- Do you go steady with the brush for very long before you give it a wring?

Phrases

wring one's hands

Clasp and twist one's hands together as a gesture of great distress, especially when one is powerless to change the situation.
苦恼地（或绝望地）绞拧双手
Example sentencesExamples
- She wrung her hands together while she nervously scanned the room for Devin.
- She wrung her own tiny hands, peering up and down the street for any more sign of the shiny officers.
- This needs real leadership from the international community to avoid a situation where everyone's just wringing their hands and watching the situation get worse and worse.
- Most of the passengers had moved as far away from him as possible and one lady kept glancing at him and wringing her hands together.
- Angelos glimpsed at Evelyn, who was suddenly looking nervous as she wrung her hands together and intently stared at the yellowing linoleum flooring.
- I wrung my hands together and buried my face into my hands.
- He was on the verge of tears, and he wrung his hands together worriedly.
- Bernie wrung his hands together nervously as he sat at Duncan's desk.
- Still, I'm perfectly willing to spend the first few days of the month wringing my hands over the situation.
- She wrung her hands together as she struggled with how to announce the news.

Origin

Old English wringan (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch wringen, also to wrong.

词汇	wring
释义	Definition of wring in English: wring verbwrung rɪŋrɪŋ [with object] 1Squeeze and twist (something) to force liquid from it. 绞，拧 she wrung the cloth out in the sink 她在水池里把布拧干。 Example sentencesExamples Next, dissolve some pure soap flakes in warm water and rub all over the furniture, paying careful attention to the soiled areas, with a towel wrung out in this soapy water. We would walk off after each scene; literally wringing our shirts dry of sweat. The heart twists blood out the same way you'd wring a towel to get water out. Ellianne watched her brother soak the linen, wring it and press it to her eyes. You had to watch every garment as it was wrung, in order that it did not wrap over the top roller and become entangled. She heard the sound of water being wrung from a cloth and felt its damp warmth pressed to her lip- and a searing stab of pain! Prop maker Peter Greenwood found a real mangle so the dame can wring clothes in the panto's slapstick scenes. He wrung out his cloth and began wiping spilled ale off the counter. Once the vat was emptied, the crowd of family and friends clapped and cheered and we were given strict instructions after changing not to wring the clothes out - for this would squeeze out the good that had been done. Gently wipe away all traces of the cleanser with a face washer wrung out in tepid water, rinsing at least twice more in warm water. Blanch the spinach until wilted, then drain well, wringing thoroughly with your hands until it's dry. Victoria wrung out the washcloth into the basin and hung it on its peg. He lifted it out, wrung it, and pressed the cloth against his forehead. Debbie looked satisfied, and wrung out the dishcloth more cheerfully. I wrung out a cold washrag, let it soak in the hot water as I brushed my hair, then braided it into a tight braid in the back of my head. Gently wipe away all traces of the cleansing lotion with a flannel wrung out in hand-hot water, rinsing at least twice more in hot water. Then, over your eyes, place a soft, scented washcloth that has been wrung out in warm lavender water (two cups water with five drops lavender essential oil). The was a light knock on the door and Sister Nicci stood wringing out Cassandra's hair and shaking her hands then opened the door. So as the three of us dried off, wrung out our suits, dried our hair, and got dressed as we discussed Möbius, their eclectic original music, and their profound musicianship. Kou wrung out his wet clothes and set them over the side of the tub. Synonyms twist, squeeze, screw, scrunch, knead, press, mangle dry, squeeze dry, screw the water out of 1.1with object and adverbial Extract (liquid) by squeezing and twisting something. 绞出，拧出 I wrung out the excess water 我把多余的水拧出来。 Example sentencesExamples He found a nearby hotel, wrung the water from his clothes, and went to have a drink. I wrung out the last bit of water in my dress over Lokre and he panted happily, his tail wagging. Sitting up, I gather all my hair in my hand and wring out the water onto his lap. Yet Strauss manages to create an opera which wrings every dramatic drop from the text. The dew will gather on the material, which can then be wrung out into a container. Not only could fat be wrung out of the bread, there were dark foreign objects within its matrix, which upon further investigation turned out to be little globules of maple syrup. I had to change my shirt when I got back to our place because you could have wrung the sweat out of the one I'd been wearing. It took me about a year afterwards to wring out a tear. I'll wring the last drop of blood out of it. We pull them out, rinse them in clean water and wring out the excess water. It was a performance that could have wrung tears from a stone. Dampen with water and wring out all the excess moisture. "Yeah, " I said, wringing more water out of my clothes. It was the sort of rain that resembled water being wrung out of a dishcloth - droplets the size of marbles and musty-smelling to boot. Viney hypothesizes that as the raw liquid silk squeezes through the duct, water is wrung out of the protein and calcium is added. Dampen a towel in the mixture and wring out all the excess moisture. 1.2 Squeeze (someone's hand) tightly, especially with sincere emotion. （真诚地）紧抓，紧握（某人的手） he fervently wrung Rose's hand Example sentencesExamples Ice let go of his hand to wring hers rather nervously, Her hands, which had formerly been clasped in her lap, were now being wrung nervously, her fingers gripping and squeezing those of the other hand and vice-versa. 1.3with object and adverbial Obtain (something) with difficulty or effort. 尽力索取，强行取得 few concessions were wrung from the government 从政府那里几乎没得到什么让步。 Example sentencesExamples That's what she got, getting high marks from critics for wringing every ounce of effort from her team. More-realistic animated characters take more time to create, and efficiencies have to be wrung from elsewhere in production. Specifically it refers to peasants displaced from farmland when it gets increasingly difficult for them to wring a decent livelihood from the soil, which faces steady encroachment as a result of urban development. In the unprecedented action, contractors and workers joined forces to wring improvements out of four companies benefiting from the state's home building boom. Dylan's vocals are quite muscular; he attacks the lyrics like a boxer, shouting, growling and bending words in effort to wring new meanings from them. But protesters have wrung a promise from city planning bosses that they will look into making Rockstone Lane a conservation area so future development is more in keeping with the road. This quarter, companies are still wringing every bit of productivity they can from their existing workforces. For those readers who are accustomed to more detailed explications, the chapters will read less as case studies and more as efforts to wring from Freud's original texts some interpretive potential. Any successful legal effort to wring such material from a newsroom is potentially worrisome, because it establishes a precedent. I was amazed at how pristine a picture the studio was able to wring from the thirty year-old print. He actually bends over the steering wheel as if to wring an extra couple of miles out of the car. But campaigners argue that such promises are easily broken when private companies try to wring more profits from such projects. Despite her best efforts, Isobel could rarely wring a smile out of Keenan. The congressman also pressed Ergen on whether the combined company would wring price concessions from programmers. He wrung the script, page by page from Thomas over seven years. This makes the unions more effective at actually wringing concessions out of companies, since it effectively removes the competitive pressures on them. In the month following the uprising, the political opposition wrung more concessions from the oppressive regime than they had in the previous 50 years. Scientists now fear the bruising experience will make it more difficult to wring cash out of the government for similar ambitious projects in the future. Additionally, while my parks all turn a handsome profit, I don't spend a lot of time playing with the cost of the hamburgers at the concession stands to wring out every last dime. Guiseley wrung one final effort out of Henry before the final whistle and all in all a draw was a fair result. Synonyms extract, elicit, force, coerce, exact, extort, wrest, wrench, screw, squeeze, milk informal bleed 2Break (an animal's neck) by twisting it forcibly. 扭断（动物的脖子） the chicken shrieked as one of the women wrung its neck humorous I'll wring her neck when I lay hands on her Example sentencesExamples Her hands were starting to itch to wring both the town head's and Cody's necks. It's operated by a centrifugal clutch and gives the buggy a far better top speed than a single geared model, and gives the engine a break from not wringing its own neck, trying to hit top speed with only one gear. It took everything inside of him to keep from jumping over the table and wringing the man's neck. Let's hope the two don't wring each other's necks during their stay together. Oh, he didn't know how bad I wanted to wring his neck! Doc's hands hung loose by his sides like fat geese with their necks wrung. The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken. Phillip Chaussier, after all, was a friend - one whose neck she usually would have loved to wring, were she only tall enough to reach it - but a friend nevertheless. To paraphrase Dr. Seuss, stop wringing the hands that should wring his neck! Back at the peg, its neck will be wrung to kill it. The unfortunate chickens that were contaminated by the pigeon droppings we were forced to kill by wringing their necks. We've become so removed from the reality of obtaining our food supply that almost no one knows how to wring - or would dare to wring - a chicken's neck. When the chicken is for Legba, you've got to wring its neck. I bellowed, lunging for Cousin Liam and wringing him around the neck. Tobie shrieked, almost wringing her best friend's neck. I expect him to break into a strangled stutter as I wring his neck, to beg for his life. Thus our instincts certainly cause us to believe that the sun will rise tomorrow, but we may be in no better a position than the chicken which unexpectedly has its neck wrung. Then I find myself at Wal-Mart surrounded by screaming children whose chubby little necks I want to wring, and reality kicks in. Part of me couldn't believe that Cleo would go through such methods just to steal off me, but the other part wanted to wring her scrawny little neck. My stomach lurched as I threw myself at Roahin, doing anything I could to wring his scrawny, traitorous, lying, cheating little neck. 3Cause pain or distress to. 使痛苦，使苦恼 the letter must have wrung her heart 那封信一定使她很伤心。 Example sentencesExamples He wrote an eloquent one, sitting at the computer on the far end of the living room as the family talked, gasping out sobs as he wrote that wrung my heart. The narrative material is obviously shaped in order to wring the audience's melodramatic heart. I stared at the picture, something new and foreign squeezing my heart and wringing it dry. May watched the mer-woman helplessly, wrung with pity and cursing her terrible fate. My heart felt like it was being wrung every time he spoke. The reason I wrote and posted this chapter, even though it wrung at my heart while I did so, was because writing - in any form - makes me feel better. Synonyms rend, tear at, harrow, pierce, stab, wound, lacerate, rack distress, pain, hurt, torment, torture noun rɪŋrɪŋ An act of squeezing or twisting something. 绞出，拧出 Example sentencesExamples I rinse my brush in hot water, warm water and then give it a slight "wring". Do you go steady with the brush for very long before you give it a wring? Most of all I like that you can roll it up in wet clothing, give it a wring, and it removes maybe 50% of the water before hanging the clothes to dry. Phrases wring one's hands Clasp and twist one's hands together as a gesture of great distress, especially when one is powerless to change the situation. 苦恼地（或绝望地）绞拧双手 she was wringing her hands in agitation there was little they could do about it except wring their hands Example sentencesExamples This needs real leadership from the international community to avoid a situation where everyone's just wringing their hands and watching the situation get worse and worse. She wrung her own tiny hands, peering up and down the street for any more sign of the shiny officers. Most of the passengers had moved as far away from him as possible and one lady kept glancing at him and wringing her hands together. Still, I'm perfectly willing to spend the first few days of the month wringing my hands over the situation. She wrung her hands together as she struggled with how to announce the news. I wrung my hands together and buried my face into my hands. Bernie wrung his hands together nervously as he sat at Duncan's desk. He was on the verge of tears, and he wrung his hands together worriedly. She wrung her hands together while she nervously scanned the room for Devin. Angelos glimpsed at Evelyn, who was suddenly looking nervous as she wrung her hands together and intently stared at the yellowing linoleum flooring. Origin Old English wringan (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch wringen, also to wrong. wrong from Old English: An Old English word from Old Norse rangr ‘awry, unjust’, which first meant ‘crooked, curved, or twisted’ and is related to wring (Old English). Until the 17th century the wr- would have been pronounced, and there was obviously something about the sound that suggested the idea of twisting—many English words beginning with wr-, such as wrist, writhe, and wreathe (all OE), contain the notion. Although to get the wrong end of the stick now means ‘to misunderstand something’, the original sense seems to have been ‘to come off worse’. The example in The Swell's Night Guide, a guide to London low life published in 1846, gives an idea of what was wrong with the ‘wrong end’: ‘Which of us had hold of the crappy…end of the stick?’ The proverb two wrongs don't make a right dates from the late 18th century. The Hungarian-born psychiatrist Thomas Szasz summed up the feelings of many when he said in 1973: ‘Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.’ Rhymes Beijing, bing, bring, Chungking, cling, ding, dingaling, fling, I Ching, king, Kunming, ling, Ming, Nanjing, Peking, ping, ring, sing, Singh, sling, spring, sting, string, swing, Synge, thing, ting, wing, Xining, zing verb.1 phr. Definition of wring in US English: wring verbrɪŋriNG [with object] 1Squeeze and twist (something) to force liquid from it. 绞，拧 she wrung the cloth out in the sink 她在水池里把布拧干。 Example sentencesExamples Gently wipe away all traces of the cleansing lotion with a flannel wrung out in hand-hot water, rinsing at least twice more in hot water. We would walk off after each scene; literally wringing our shirts dry of sweat. She heard the sound of water being wrung from a cloth and felt its damp warmth pressed to her lip- and a searing stab of pain! Kou wrung out his wet clothes and set them over the side of the tub. You had to watch every garment as it was wrung, in order that it did not wrap over the top roller and become entangled. Prop maker Peter Greenwood found a real mangle so the dame can wring clothes in the panto's slapstick scenes. He lifted it out, wrung it, and pressed the cloth against his forehead. I wrung out a cold washrag, let it soak in the hot water as I brushed my hair, then braided it into a tight braid in the back of my head. Then, over your eyes, place a soft, scented washcloth that has been wrung out in warm lavender water (two cups water with five drops lavender essential oil). So as the three of us dried off, wrung out our suits, dried our hair, and got dressed as we discussed Möbius, their eclectic original music, and their profound musicianship. The was a light knock on the door and Sister Nicci stood wringing out Cassandra's hair and shaking her hands then opened the door. He wrung out his cloth and began wiping spilled ale off the counter. The heart twists blood out the same way you'd wring a towel to get water out. Once the vat was emptied, the crowd of family and friends clapped and cheered and we were given strict instructions after changing not to wring the clothes out - for this would squeeze out the good that had been done. Next, dissolve some pure soap flakes in warm water and rub all over the furniture, paying careful attention to the soiled areas, with a towel wrung out in this soapy water. Gently wipe away all traces of the cleanser with a face washer wrung out in tepid water, rinsing at least twice more in warm water. Ellianne watched her brother soak the linen, wring it and press it to her eyes. Victoria wrung out the washcloth into the basin and hung it on its peg. Blanch the spinach until wilted, then drain well, wringing thoroughly with your hands until it's dry. Debbie looked satisfied, and wrung out the dishcloth more cheerfully. Synonyms twist, squeeze, screw, scrunch, knead, press, mangle 1.1 Extract (liquid) by squeezing and twisting something. 绞出，拧出 I wrung out the excess water 我把多余的水拧出来。 Example sentencesExamples I'll wring the last drop of blood out of it. It took me about a year afterwards to wring out a tear. Dampen a towel in the mixture and wring out all the excess moisture. We pull them out, rinse them in clean water and wring out the excess water. It was the sort of rain that resembled water being wrung out of a dishcloth - droplets the size of marbles and musty-smelling to boot. The dew will gather on the material, which can then be wrung out into a container. He found a nearby hotel, wrung the water from his clothes, and went to have a drink. It was a performance that could have wrung tears from a stone. Not only could fat be wrung out of the bread, there were dark foreign objects within its matrix, which upon further investigation turned out to be little globules of maple syrup. Viney hypothesizes that as the raw liquid silk squeezes through the duct, water is wrung out of the protein and calcium is added. Dampen with water and wring out all the excess moisture. Yet Strauss manages to create an opera which wrings every dramatic drop from the text. I had to change my shirt when I got back to our place because you could have wrung the sweat out of the one I'd been wearing. I wrung out the last bit of water in my dress over Lokre and he panted happily, his tail wagging. Sitting up, I gather all my hair in my hand and wring out the water onto his lap. "Yeah, " I said, wringing more water out of my clothes. 1.2 Break (an animal's neck) by twisting it forcibly. 扭断（动物的脖子） Example sentencesExamples Her hands were starting to itch to wring both the town head's and Cody's necks. The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken. To paraphrase Dr. Seuss, stop wringing the hands that should wring his neck! My stomach lurched as I threw myself at Roahin, doing anything I could to wring his scrawny, traitorous, lying, cheating little neck. Oh, he didn't know how bad I wanted to wring his neck! I expect him to break into a strangled stutter as I wring his neck, to beg for his life. I bellowed, lunging for Cousin Liam and wringing him around the neck. Tobie shrieked, almost wringing her best friend's neck. It's operated by a centrifugal clutch and gives the buggy a far better top speed than a single geared model, and gives the engine a break from not wringing its own neck, trying to hit top speed with only one gear. Let's hope the two don't wring each other's necks during their stay together. It took everything inside of him to keep from jumping over the table and wringing the man's neck. Doc's hands hung loose by his sides like fat geese with their necks wrung. Then I find myself at Wal-Mart surrounded by screaming children whose chubby little necks I want to wring, and reality kicks in. The unfortunate chickens that were contaminated by the pigeon droppings we were forced to kill by wringing their necks. We've become so removed from the reality of obtaining our food supply that almost no one knows how to wring - or would dare to wring - a chicken's neck. When the chicken is for Legba, you've got to wring its neck. Thus our instincts certainly cause us to believe that the sun will rise tomorrow, but we may be in no better a position than the chicken which unexpectedly has its neck wrung. Phillip Chaussier, after all, was a friend - one whose neck she usually would have loved to wring, were she only tall enough to reach it - but a friend nevertheless. Part of me couldn't believe that Cleo would go through such methods just to steal off me, but the other part wanted to wring her scrawny little neck. Back at the peg, its neck will be wrung to kill it. 1.3 Squeeze (someone's hand) tightly, especially with sincere emotion. （真诚地）紧抓，紧握（某人的手） Example sentencesExamples Her hands, which had formerly been clasped in her lap, were now being wrung nervously, her fingers gripping and squeezing those of the other hand and vice-versa. Ice let go of his hand to wring hers rather nervously, 1.4 Obtain (something) with difficulty or effort. 尽力索取，强行取得 few concessions were wrung from the government 从政府那里几乎没得到什么让步。 Example sentencesExamples More-realistic animated characters take more time to create, and efficiencies have to be wrung from elsewhere in production. The congressman also pressed Ergen on whether the combined company would wring price concessions from programmers. Additionally, while my parks all turn a handsome profit, I don't spend a lot of time playing with the cost of the hamburgers at the concession stands to wring out every last dime. In the unprecedented action, contractors and workers joined forces to wring improvements out of four companies benefiting from the state's home building boom. Dylan's vocals are quite muscular; he attacks the lyrics like a boxer, shouting, growling and bending words in effort to wring new meanings from them. But protesters have wrung a promise from city planning bosses that they will look into making Rockstone Lane a conservation area so future development is more in keeping with the road. Specifically it refers to peasants displaced from farmland when it gets increasingly difficult for them to wring a decent livelihood from the soil, which faces steady encroachment as a result of urban development. I was amazed at how pristine a picture the studio was able to wring from the thirty year-old print. For those readers who are accustomed to more detailed explications, the chapters will read less as case studies and more as efforts to wring from Freud's original texts some interpretive potential. Any successful legal effort to wring such material from a newsroom is potentially worrisome, because it establishes a precedent. In the month following the uprising, the political opposition wrung more concessions from the oppressive regime than they had in the previous 50 years. This makes the unions more effective at actually wringing concessions out of companies, since it effectively removes the competitive pressures on them. This quarter, companies are still wringing every bit of productivity they can from their existing workforces. But campaigners argue that such promises are easily broken when private companies try to wring more profits from such projects. He wrung the script, page by page from Thomas over seven years. Guiseley wrung one final effort out of Henry before the final whistle and all in all a draw was a fair result. Scientists now fear the bruising experience will make it more difficult to wring cash out of the government for similar ambitious projects in the future. That's what she got, getting high marks from critics for wringing every ounce of effort from her team. He actually bends over the steering wheel as if to wring an extra couple of miles out of the car. Despite her best efforts, Isobel could rarely wring a smile out of Keenan. Synonyms extract, elicit, force, coerce, exact, extort, wrest, wrench, screw, squeeze, milk 1.5 Cause pain or distress to. 使痛苦，使苦恼 the letter must have wrung her heart 那封信一定使她很伤心。 Example sentencesExamples The narrative material is obviously shaped in order to wring the audience's melodramatic heart. The reason I wrote and posted this chapter, even though it wrung at my heart while I did so, was because writing - in any form - makes me feel better. May watched the mer-woman helplessly, wrung with pity and cursing her terrible fate. I stared at the picture, something new and foreign squeezing my heart and wringing it dry. My heart felt like it was being wrung every time he spoke. He wrote an eloquent one, sitting at the computer on the far end of the living room as the family talked, gasping out sobs as he wrote that wrung my heart. Synonyms rend, tear at, harrow, pierce, stab, wound, lacerate, rack nounrɪŋriNG An act of squeezing or twisting something. 绞出，拧出 Example sentencesExamples Most of all I like that you can roll it up in wet clothing, give it a wring, and it removes maybe 50% of the water before hanging the clothes to dry. I rinse my brush in hot water, warm water and then give it a slight "wring". Do you go steady with the brush for very long before you give it a wring? Phrases wring one's hands Clasp and twist one's hands together as a gesture of great distress, especially when one is powerless to change the situation. 苦恼地（或绝望地）绞拧双手 Example sentencesExamples She wrung her hands together while she nervously scanned the room for Devin. She wrung her own tiny hands, peering up and down the street for any more sign of the shiny officers. This needs real leadership from the international community to avoid a situation where everyone's just wringing their hands and watching the situation get worse and worse. Most of the passengers had moved as far away from him as possible and one lady kept glancing at him and wringing her hands together. Angelos glimpsed at Evelyn, who was suddenly looking nervous as she wrung her hands together and intently stared at the yellowing linoleum flooring. I wrung my hands together and buried my face into my hands. He was on the verge of tears, and he wrung his hands together worriedly. Bernie wrung his hands together nervously as he sat at Duncan's desk. Still, I'm perfectly willing to spend the first few days of the month wringing my hands over the situation. She wrung her hands together as she struggled with how to announce the news. Origin Old English wringan (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch wringen, also to wrong. verb.1 phr.
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