Synonyms for wring
rɪŋwring

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1. squeeze, wringverb

   a twisting squeeze

   "gave the wet cloth a wring"

   Synonyms:
   clinch, squeezing, power play, liquidity crisis, credit crunch, squeeze play, squeeze, hug

2. contort, deform, distort, wringverb

   twist and press out of shape

   Synonyms:
   turn, warp, extort, strain, bend, rack, wrench, color, twist, colour, falsify, squeeze, distort, garble, deform, twine, tinge, contort, flex, change shape, change form, gouge

3. wring, wrenchverb

   twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish

   "Wring one's hand"

   Synonyms:
   deform, gouge, squeeze, extort, rack, twist, sprain, contort, wrick, turn, wrench, rick, distort

4. extort, 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, constrict

5. wringverb

   twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid

   "wring the towels"

   Synonyms:
   deform, gouge, squeeze, extort, rack, contort, wrench, distort

Matched Categories

1. • Overcharge
   • Squeeze
   • Twist

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wringverb

   Synonyms:
   twist (violently)

2. wringverb

   Synonyms:
   force, extort, wrest

3. wringverb

   Synonyms:
   harass, distress, torture, torment, pain

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. wringverb

   Synonyms:
   writhe, squeeze, pinch, distort, pervert, wrest, exact, extort

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How to use wring in a sentence?

1. George Sand:

   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.

2. Linda Matheny:

   I'm going to wring his neck, what he was doing up there with only flip-flops, I have no idea.

3. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

   You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! -- and that! -- and that! -- and that!

4. John Ing:

   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.

5. Patrick Rothfuss:

   Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.