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

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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. Nick Papageorge:

   We need to understand these differences because we can wring our hands, and we can blame and shame, but in a way it doesn’t matter, policymakers just need to recognize who is going to socially distance, for how long, why and under what circumstances to give us accurate predictions of how the disease will spread and help us establish policies that will be useful.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Mitch Landrieu:

   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.

5. Lucinda Creighton:

   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.