wring

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

wring [wring wrings wrung wringing] BrE [rɪŋ] NAmE [rɪŋ] verb (wrung, wrungBrE [rʌŋ] ; NAmE [rʌŋ] )
1. ~ sth (out) to twist and squeeze clothes, etc. in order to get the water out of them
2. ~ sth if you wring a bird's neck, you twist it in order to kill the bird
Idioms: ↑wring somebody's hand ▪ ↑wring somebody's neck ▪ ↑wring your hands
Derived: ↑wring something out of somebody
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Word Origin:
Old English wringan (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch wringen, also to ↑wrong.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  squeeze, extort, rack, gouge, wrench, contort, deform, distort