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 Wring v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrung Obs. Wringed p. pr. & vb. n. Wringing.]
 1. To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.  “Earnestly wringing Waverley's hand.” --Sir W. Scott. “Wring him by the nose.” --Shak.
    [His steed] so sweat that men might him wring.   --Chaucer.
    The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.   --Bacon.
    The priest shall bring it [a dove] unto the altar, and wring off his head.   --Lev. i. 15.
 2. Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
    Too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune.   --Clarendon.
 Didst thou taste but half the griefs
 That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly.   --Addison.
 3. To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
    How dare men thus wring the Scriptures?   --Whitgift.
 4. 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.
    Your overkindness doth wring tears from me.   --Shak.
    He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece.   --Judg. vi. 38.
 5. To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
    To wring the widow from her 'customed right.   --Shak.
    The merchant adventures have been often wronged and wringed to the quick.   --Hayward.
 6. Naut. To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.