wring

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Mr. Battipaglia said "hand-wring," not "hand-ring."

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  1. transitive verb To twist, squeeze, or compress, especially so as to extract liquid. Often used with out.
  2. transitive verb To extract (liquid) by twisting or compressing. Often used with out.
  3. transitive verb To wrench or twist forcibly or painfully: wring the neck of a chicken.
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  • "I'm going to wring, your stupid tiny sniveling neck, Golem!" —  Golem in the Gears
  • The point of this is not to hand-wring, but to spot whether this set of choices needs to change going forward, and what to work on first.
  • Mr. Battipaglia said "hand-wring," not "hand-ring." —  Pros and Cons
  • Can you imagine the hand-wring, or worse, if any Democrat had used the word "fail" in any context 60 days into George Bush's reign? —  CNN Political Ticker
  • But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me Thy wring-world right foot rock? —  Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published
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wring:   wrung ·  wringing ·  wrings
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English wringen, from Old English wringan; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English wringen (preterit wrang, wrong, wronge, plural wrungen, wrongen, past participle wrungen, wronge), from Anglo-Saxon wringan (preterit wrang, past participle wrungen), press, strain, wring, = Dutch wringen = Low German wringen, twist together, = Old High German ringan, Middle High German G. ringen, wring, struggle, wrestle, wrest, = Gothic (Moesogothic) *wriggan, indicated by the deriv. wruggō, snare; cf. Swedish vränga, distort, wrest, pervert, Danish vringle, twist, tangle (vringel-hornet, having twisted horns); prob. connected with wrick, wrig, wry. Hence ult. wrangle, wrong, etc.
  2. from Middle English wringe, wrynge, from Anglo-Saxon *wringe, in wīn-wringe, a wine-press, from wringan, press, wring: see wring, v.
 

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