Synonyms for wring
rɪŋwring

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1. squeeze, wringverb

   a twisting squeeze

   "gave the wet cloth a wring"

   Synonyms:
   clinch, squeezing, power play, liquidity crisis, credit crunch, squeeze play, squeeze, hug

2. contort, deform, distort, wringverb

   twist and press out of shape

   Synonyms:
   turn, warp, extort, strain, bend, rack, wrench, color, twist, colour, falsify, squeeze, distort, garble, deform, twine, tinge, contort, flex, change shape, change form, gouge

3. wring, wrenchverb

   twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish

   "Wring one's hand"

   Synonyms:
   deform, gouge, squeeze, extort, rack, twist, sprain, contort, wrick, turn, wrench, rick, distort

4. extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wringverb

   obtain by coercion or intimidation

   "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"

   Synonyms:
   pressure, crush, scud, coerce, rack, contort, thrust, press, twitch, wring from, rout, gouge, tweet, embrace, force, shove, single-foot, torment, twinge, compress, hug, wrench, contract, excruciate, extort, stuff, distort, squeeze, squash, compact, pinch, hale, mash, torture, force out, bosom, wedge, deform, squelch, constrict

5. wringverb

   twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid

   "wring the towels"

   Synonyms:
   deform, gouge, squeeze, extort, rack, contort, wrench, distort

Matched Categories

1. • Overcharge
   • Squeeze
   • Twist

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1. wringverb

   Synonyms:
   twist (violently)

2. wringverb

   Synonyms:
   force, extort, wrest

3. wringverb

   Synonyms:
   harass, distress, torture, torment, pain

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. wringverb

   Synonyms:
   writhe, squeeze, pinch, distort, pervert, wrest, exact, extort

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How to use wring in a sentence?

1. Lucinda Creighton:

   The tech companies basically don't see this as a priority, they wring their hands, they say this is terrible, but what they're not doing is preventing this from reappearing.

2. Linda Matheny:

   I'm going to wring his neck, what he was doing up there with only flip-flops, I have no idea.

3. Patrick Rothfuss:

   Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

4. Joseph Dunford:

   So, I think for all of us, we should give Secretary Tillerson full support in attempting to resolve this diplomatically and economically, even as we recognize that it may not happen, and there may have to be a follow-up option, which is the military option, we can wring our hands and say it will never happen, or we can roll up our sleeves and make an effort to have a concerted economic and diplomatic plan that does cause KJU, Kim Jong Un, to come to the table and begin to have a conversation, at least stop the path that he’s on right now, which is further development of intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear capability. And to me it makes all the sense in the world to prove the theory of the case and to work this for a few more months.

5. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

   You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! -- and that! -- and that! -- and that!