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All wring synonyms

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verb wring

  • squeeze — to press forcibly together; compress.
  • twist — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
  • mangle — to smooth or press with a mangle.
  • press — to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
  • compress — When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
  • contort — If someone's face or body contorts or is contorted, it moves into an unnatural and unattractive shape or position.
  • draw out — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
  • extort — Obtain (something) by force, threats, or other unfair means.
  • extract — Remove or take out, especially by effort or force.
  • wrench — to twist suddenly and forcibly; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist: He wrenched the prisoner's wrist.
  • wrest — to twist or turn; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist.
  • choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
  • coerce — If you coerce someone into doing something, you make them do it, although they do not want to.
  • exact — Not approximated in any way; precise.
  • force — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
  • gouge — a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.
  • hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
  • pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
  • pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
  • pry — to inquire impertinently or unnecessarily into something: to pry into the personal affairs of others.
  • push — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • screw — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
  • strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
  • throttle — Also called throttle lever. a lever, pedal, handle, etc., for controlling or manipulating a throttle valve.
  • turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
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