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    [Verb]  | "wring" | \ ˈriŋ \


    1: to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid

    2: to extract or obtain by or as if by twisting and compressing

    3: to twist so as to strain or sprain into a distorted shape


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English, from Old English wringan; akin to Old High German ringan to struggle, Lithuanian rengtis to bend down, Old English wyrgan to strangle {mat|worry|};

    [Verb]  | "wrung" 


    1: to get (as money) by the use of force or threats;


      * e.g., " ... that bill collector is willing to do anything to wring money out of deadbeats "



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    2: to get with great difficulty;


      * e.g., " ... after years of trying to wring a decent profit out of the business, he is finally giving up "



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    3: to move by or as if by a forceful rotation;


      * e.g., " ... I'm so mad I could wring your neck "



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    [Verb]  | "wring" 


    1: to get (as money) by the use of force or threats;


      * e.g., " ... that bill collector is willing to do anything to wring money out of deadbeats "



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    2: to get with great difficulty;


      * e.g., " ... after years of trying to wring a decent profit out of the business, he is finally giving up "



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    3: to move by or as if by a forceful rotation;


      * e.g., " ... I'm so mad I could wring your neck "



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    [Verb]  | "wrung (out)" 


     [ "Wrunge" ]

    1: To angrily vomit on someone else.

      * e.g.,  ... I had to wrunge on this loser for back talkin'. 

     [ "wrung out" ]

    1: When after a particularly heavy night out you throw up so much your stomach feels like it has been twisted bone dry and your hold body is beat.

      * e.g.,  ... Dude I don't think I'm gonna make lunch today, I've been throwing up for the last hour and I'm wrung out! :( 

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