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Antonyms for wring
rɪŋwring
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squeeze, wringverb
a twisting squeeze
"gave the wet cloth a wring"
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clinch, squeezing, power play, liquidity crisis, credit crunch, squeeze play, squeeze, hugcontort, deform, distort, wringverb
twist and press out of shape
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turn, warp, extort, strain, bend, rack, wrench, color, twist, colour, falsify, squeeze, distort, garble, deform, twine, tinge, contort, flex, change shape, change form, gougewring, wrenchverb
twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
"Wring one's hand"
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deform, gouge, squeeze, extort, rack, twist, sprain, contort, wrick, turn, wrench, rick, distortextort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wringverb
obtain by coercion or intimidation
"They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"
Synonyms:
pressure, crush, scud, coerce, rack, contort, thrust, press, twitch, wring from, rout, gouge, tweet, embrace, force, shove, single-foot, torment, twinge, compress, hug, wrench, contract, excruciate, extort, stuff, distort, squeeze, squash, compact, pinch, hale, mash, torture, force out, bosom, wedge, deform, squelch, constrictwringverb
twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid
"wring the towels"
Synonyms:
deform, gouge, squeeze, extort, rack, contort, wrench, distort
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How to use wring in a sentence?
The President says,' Look, I can't sit in my office and turn a dial and move gas down. I can't sit in my office and move inflation,' but what I can do is ask Congress and my team to help me reduce everybody's cost in other areas and wring efficiencies out of the system. That's where the infrastructure bill comes into play.
The tech companies basically don't see this as a priority, they wring their hands, they say this is terrible, but what they're not doing is preventing this from reappearing.
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.
It's the summer doldrums, so there are few bulls around, technically we're oversold, we're due for at least the odd dead-cat bounce ... but I suspect this has got to wring itself out.
I'm going to wring his neck, what he was doing up there with only flip-flops, I have no idea.
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