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transitive verb. To twist, squeeze, or compress, especially so as to extract liquid. Often used with out.

transitive verb. To extract (liquid) by twisting or compressing. Often used with out.

transitive verb. To wrench or twist forcibly or painfully.

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transitive verb. To clasp and twist or squeeze (one's hands), as in distress.

transitive verb. To clasp firmly and shake (another's hand), as in congratulation.

transitive verb. To cause distress to; affect with painful emotion.

transitive verb. To obtain or extract by applying force or pressure.

noun. The act or an instance of wringing.

noun. A wringer or presser; a wine-press or cider-press.

noun. Action expressive of anguish; writhing.

To twist in the hands, as something flexible; twist or flex forcibly: as, to wring clothes after washing, to force out the water; to wring a friend's hand in cordial greeting: often with out.

To twist out of place, shape, or relation; bend or strain tortuously or twistingly: as, to wring a mast; to wring the neck of a chicken.

To turn or divert the course or purport of; distort; pervert.

To affect painfully by or as if by some contorting or compressing action or effect; torture; rack; distress; pain.

To force out, as a fluid, by twisting or contorting pressure; extract or obtain by or as if by a squeezing flexure; hence, to squeeze out in any way; extort: as, to wring water from clothes; to wring a reluctant consent from a person: often with out.

To free from a liquid by twisting or compression: as, to wring out clothes.

To writhe; twist about, as with anguish; squirm; suffer torture.

To pinch; pain.

To force one's way by pressure.

noun. A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.

intransitive verb. To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.

transitive verb. To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch.

transitive verb. Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.

transitive verb. To distort; to pervert; to wrest.

transitive verb. To extract or obtain by twisting and compressing; to squeeze or press (out); hence, to extort; to draw forth by violence, or against resistance or repugnance; -- usually with out or form.

transitive verb. To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.

transitive verb. To bend or strain out of its position.

verb. To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.

verb. To obtain by force.

verb. To hold tightly and press or twist.

verb. twist and press out of shape

noun. a twisting squeeze

verb. obtain by coercion or intimidation

verb. twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish

verb. twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid