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Synonyms for wring
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Princeton's WordNet
squeeze, wringverb
a twisting squeeze
"gave the wet cloth a wring"
Synonyms:
clinch, squeezing, power play, liquidity crisis, credit crunch, squeeze play, squeeze, hugcontort, 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, 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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#422 | press | |
#696 | color | |
#992 | stuff | |
#1007 | turn | |
#1022 | force | |
#1204 | contract | |
#1608 | pressure | |
#2742 | colour | |
#3048 | compact | |
#4680 | rack | |
#4858 | rick | |
#5338 | torture | |
#6506 | bend | |
#6612 | strain | |
#7835 | twist | |
#9114 | flex | |
#10795 | embrace | |
#11614 | squash | |
#12398 | crush | |
#12572 | thrust | |
#13411 | wedge | |
#13626 | hale | |
#13787 | squeeze | |
#13972 | hug | |
#15716 | warp | |
#17127 | pinch | |
#17309 | wrench | |
#19529 | compress | |
#20204 | mash | |
#28948 | shove | |
#29210 | torment | |
#29307 | squeezing | |
#32051 | bosom | |
#32665 | distort | |
#35877 | twitch | |
#36290 | clinch | |
#38396 | rout | |
#43915 | twine | |
#48826 | coerce | |
#59155 | scud | |
#60356 | gouge | |
#61179 | sprain | |
#62045 | squelch | |
#62776 | tinge | |
#64838 | falsify | |
#69333 | wring | |
#73889 | tweet | |
#78074 | deform | |
#91682 | extort | |
#104149 | twinge | |
#108267 | constrict | |
#195194 | contort | |
#203360 | garble |
How to use wring in a sentence?
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.
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.
So, I think for all of us, we should give Secretary Tillerson full support in attempting to resolve this diplomatically and economically, even as we recognize that it may not happen, and there may have to be a follow-up option, which is the military option, we can wring our hands and say it will never happen, or we can roll up our sleeves and make an effort to have a concerted economic and diplomatic plan that does cause KJU, Kim Jong Un, to come to the table and begin to have a conversation, at least stop the path that he’s on right now, which is further development of intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear capability. And to me it makes all the sense in the world to prove the theory of the case and to work this for a few more months.
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.
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.
Translations for wring
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- ždímatCzech
- vrideDanish
- wringen, auswringenGerman
- στείβωGreek
- escurrir, retorcer, exprimirSpanish
- چلاندنPersian
- vääntää, niskat nurin, väännellä, puristaaFinnish
- essorerFrench
- snìomhScottish Gaelic
- espremerGalician
- faastManx
- סחטHebrew
- քամելArmenian
- peras, remasIndonesian
- 絞るJapanese
- grieztLatvian
- kōwiriMāori
- wringen, uitwringen, afpersenDutch
- wykręcaćPolish
- arrancar, torcerPortuguese
- stoarceRomanian
- выжима́ть, вымога́ть, вы́жать, выкру́чивать, сжима́ть, вы́крутить, сжатьRussian
- исциједити, iscijeditiSerbo-Croatian
- vrida urSwedish
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