wringwring /rɪŋ/ verb (past tense and past participle wrung /rʌŋ/) [transitive] 1
to tightly twist a wet cloth or wet clothes in order to force out the water SYN wring out2wring your hands a)disapproving to say how worried or upset you are about your situation, instead of doing something to make it better b)to rub and twist your hands together because you are worried and upset → see also hand-wringing3I’ll wring somebody’s neck spoken said when you want to punish someone because he or she did something that has made you angry4wring something’s neck to kill something such as a chicken by twisting its neckwring something ↔ out phrasal verb to tightly twist a wet cloth or wet clothes in order to force out the water: Wring out the cloth first. → see also wrung-outwring something out of somebody (also wring something from somebody) phrasal verb to succeed in getting or achieving something, but only after a lot of effort: I managed to wring the information out of him.
to tightly twist a wet cloth or wet clothes in order to force out the water SYN wring out2wring your hands a)disapproving to say how worried or upset you are about your situation, instead of doing something to make it better b)to rub and twist your hands together because you are worried and upset → see also hand-wringing3I’ll wring somebody’s neck spoken said when you want to punish someone because he or she did something that has made you angry4wring something’s neck to kill something such as a chicken by twisting its neckwring something ↔ out phrasal verb to tightly twist a wet cloth or wet clothes in order to force out the water: Wring out the cloth first. → see also wrung-outwring something out of somebody (also wring something from somebody) phrasal verb to succeed in getting or achieving something, but only after a lot of effort: I managed to wring the information out of him.