WRINGED
Verb
wringed
simple past tense and past participle of wring
Anagrams
• Red Wing, redwing
Source: Wiktionary
WRING
Wring, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrung, Obs. Wringed (; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wringing.] Etym: [OE. wringen, AS. wringan; akin to LG. & D. wringen,
OHG. ringan to struggle, G. ringen, Sw. vränga to distort, Dan.
vringle to twist. Cf. Wrangle, Wrench, Wrong.]
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.)
Definition: To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.
Wring, v. i.
Definition: To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.
'T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under
the load of sorrow. Shak.
Look where the sister of the king of France Sits wringing of her
hands, and beats her breast. Marlowe.
Wring, n.
Definition: A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping. [Obs.] Bp.
Hall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition