(v. t.) To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.
(v. t.) Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
(v. t.) To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
(v. t.) To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.
(v. i.) To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.
(n.) A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.
Example Sentences:
(1) "That would be good news for the tobacco industry in its endless search to wring profits out of new addicts, but terrible news for children and young people across Europe ."
(2) That’s not only because they hold so many title deeds, but also because modern governments are given to wringing their hands and declaring their own impotence in the face of multinationals.
(3) Poor countries have won historic recognition of the plight they face from the ravages of climate change, wringing a pledge from rich nations that they will receive funds to repair the "loss and damage" incurred.
(4) Outside, all the talk was of the corruption allegations that had led to a fresh wave of hand-wringing over the greed and grotesque sums in the game.
(5) CiU, which has governed Catalonia for 25 of the 33 years since democracy was restored, has never aspired to independence, preferring to wring more autonomy out of minority governments in Madrid.
(6) He hailed the commitment from industrialised countries to provide $100bn (£61bn) a year in climate funding without wringing significant concessions out of emerging powers as a significant victory, and signalled that the close links with China were set to continue.
(7) Long before anyone ever wrote an article about the “gig economy”, corporations had discovered the higher profits they could wring out of an on-demand workforce made up of independent contractors.
(8) Ministers rightly wring their hands over the 2,200 jobs being lost at the 98-year-old Redcar steelworks hit by low-cost Chinese competition .
(9) Rather than wringing our hands about the white working class and immigration, we need to deal with the underlying issues that make white and black people hostile to immigration; things like housing and job security.
(10) We had to wring out our clothes to drink our sweat from them.
(11) But that is informed consent – which users can’t see, but I’m putting in quotes.” Asked by the host, Alex Goldman, if OKCupid had ever considered bringing in an ethicist to vet the experiments, Rudder said: “To wring his hands all day for a $100,000 a year?”.
(12) He claimed that he would only support membership of the European Union if he could wring the right concessions from other continental leaders.
(13) Article after article tracks the coalfield’s economic decline , but no one living in post-industrial Wales needs such well-meaning hand-wringing to awaken them to their situation.
(14) Though the reforms received widespread bipartisan support at the time they passed Congress and are supported by the White House, a backlash has grown in recent weeks, with figures such as CIA director John Brennan criticising “hand-wringing” over surveillance.
(15) I feel self-conscious talking about it,” Biden said, looking down solemnly and occasionally wringing his hands.
(16) We believe the responsible approach to business and consumption is to be transparent about our own impact, and keep working to wring out waste in our own activities.” However, financial disclosure records for the US Senate indicate that Oglivy Government Relations – a standalone lobbying firm in the same Washington DC office building as Oglivy PR – represents some of the most ferocious opponents of Barack Obama’s efforts to act on climate change, including the American Petroleum Institute, the biggest oil industry lobby.
(17) The edema is measured volumetrically subsequent to squashing the rat paw under standardized conditions in a wringing-machine with two wooden rollers.
(18) A call for the people of Rome to clean up their city and show some civic pride has gone viral following months of hand-wringing about the sorry state of Italy’s capital.
(19) It is, ironically, the same people on the whole who hand-wring about our pensions deficit and the loss of living standards, who also disapprove of the state subsidising people raising many children and rail against migrants.
(20) But three years on, for all the hand-wringing, the economic upheaval and the promises of politicians, there is a whiff of business as usual in the air.
Wrung
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Wring
() imp. & p. p. of Wring.
Example Sentences:
(1) But dealer and gallery owner Paul Jones, who has represented street artists for 30 years, suspects the last juices have been wrung from an art movement that started in America, before coming to Britain in 2000, where it was re-invented as a print buyers' market.
(2) For years the city council has wrung its hands in a state of bewildered helplessness as public awareness of this gateway to hell in their midst has grown.
(3) As it was any spectators crammed into the gangways of court 16 expecting high courtroom drama will have left as many have before: baffled and generally wrung out by the mind-fuddling complexities of chancery proceedings.
(4) Normally, he never sees them once they're released - 'I'll do the premiere and that's the last time that I'll ever look at it because I've wrung it dry by then.'
(5) He has wrung promises from Westminster of more devolved powers.
(6) He has wrung a near apology for past crimes out of Dostum, who said in a message on Facebook: "We apologise to all who have suffered on both sides of the wars."
(7) He went on: "It is clear from the McNulty report that there are huge efficiency gains to be wrung out of Network Rail.
(8) "An enterprise strategy means investing in renewable energy," he said, a far warmer phrase than in previous speeches and presumably wrung out of him by the Lib Dems.
(9) Greece bailout agreement: key points Read more Tsipras wrung two concessions: the fund would be run from Athens, not Luxembourg, and a tranche of the cash would be earmarked for investments in Greece.
(10) This is also why the details of any concessions wrung from the Tories over the last couple of days on financial reform will matter so much.
(11) But as the dust has settled, there have been growing doubts about whether the deal Italy and Spain thought they had wrung from Berlin was as good as it first appeared.
(12) The 10-month partial freeze, wrung out of Netanyahu after months of pressure and negotiation, is due to end in late September.
(13) Five years later Ghani wrung a half-hearted apology out of his vice-president but was otherwise unapologetic, arguing that the alliance was the price of transformation for a country so often betrayed by its rulers.
(14) So those of us who were shocked by the hardline, "Chinese way" of raising children revealed by Amy Chua in her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother aren't surprised by its follow-up – the news that a pair of schoolgirls in Beijing, driven to despair by their mothers' desperate drive to force them on to success, have fought back with the online publication of a guide to how savvy but wrung-out kids can retaliate when they're being driven to the edge of the cliff of over-ambition.
(15) Their intervention came after David Cameron , Nick Clegg and Miliband made a joint pledge on Scotland on the front page of the Daily Record, supplementing a previous pledge wrung out of the leaders by Gordon Brown, which gave a fast-track timetable for devolution starting 19 September.
(16) He wrung an 18-month deal from Levy which, it has to be said, felt like a surprise.
(17) At the end of it all, both teams looked wrung out and exhausted.
(18) The writer pointed out that the attack took place behind closed doors, adding: "If we'd wanted a sensational rape we could have stayed down in the kitchen with the camera during the whole thing and wrung it out.
(19) Owen Paterson took the helm, and by the end of November 2012 had wrung some money out of the Treasury to plug a little of the funding gap.