Definitions for wring

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Spelling: [ring]
IPA: /rɪŋ/

Wring is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in wring (ginrw).

Definitions for wring

noun

  1. a wringing; forcible twist or squeeze.

verb (used with object)

  1. to twist forcibly:
  2. to twist and compress, or compress without twisting, in order to force out water or other liquid (often followed by out):
  3. to extract or expel by twisting or compression (usually followed by out or from).
  4. to affect painfully by or as if by some contorting or compressing action.
  5. to clasp tightly with or without twisting:
  6. to force (usually followed by off) by twisting.
  7. to extract or get by forceful effort or means (often followed by out).

verb (used without object)

  1. to perform the action of wringing something.
  2. to writhe, as in anguish.

Origin of wring

before 900; Middle English wringen, Old English wringan; cognate with German ringen to wrestle

Examples for wring

Now Brooks spoke of a death so horrific as to wring tears from a man who has seen gun death after gun death after gun death.

To wring all that can be wrung from metaphor, note what our elected and appointed officials are not dressed as.

She thought of the meeting at the Festa, and longed to wring from Gaspare his secret.

Some things never change as we wring out the old year and ring in the new one.

No bribe—and he was shameless in his offers—could wring more than that from her.

If you don't pay him every red copper, down on the nail, he'll wring you dry.

Possibly should he retain her he could wring a handsome ransom from the white man.

Were he taken they'd wring out of him whatever happened to be in him.

It could find other ways to wring costs of its operations, like using less packaging or electricity.

This makes what Obama and John Kerry manage to wring out of the Russians in the next two days absolutely crucial.

Word Value for wring
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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