wring

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To twist, squeeze, or compress, especially so as to extract liquid. Often used with out.
2. v. To extract (liquid) by twisting or compressing. Often used with out.
3. v. To wrench or twist forcibly or painfully: wring the neck of a chicken.
4. v. To clasp and twist or squeeze (one's hands), as in distress.
5. v. To clasp firmly and shake (another's hand), as in congratulation.
6. v. To cause distress to; affect with painful emotion: a tale that wrings the heart.
7. v. To obtain or extract by applying force or pressure: wrung the truth out of the recalcitrant witness.
8. v. To writhe or squirm, as in pain.
9. n. The act or an instance of wringing; a squeeze or twist.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To twist in the hands, as something flexible; twist or flex forcibly: as, to wring clothes after washing, to force out the water; to wring a friend's hand in cordial greeting: often with out.
2. To twist out of place, shape, or relation; bend or strain tortuously or twistingly: as, to wring a mast; to wring the neck of a chicken.
3. To turn or divert the course or purport of; distort; pervert.
4. To affect painfully by or as if by some contorting or compressing action or effect; torture; rack; distress; pain.
5. To force out, as a fluid, by twisting or contorting pressure; extract or obtain by or as if by a squeezing flexure; hence, to squeeze out in any way; extort: as, to wring water from clothes; to wring a reluctant consent from a person: often with out.
6. To free from a liquid by twisting or compression: as, to wring out clothes.
7. To writhe; twist about, as with anguish; squirm; suffer torture.
8. To pinch; pain.
9. To force one's way by pressure.
10. n. A wringer or presser; a wine-press or cider-press.
11. n. Action expressive of anguish; writhing.

Wiktionary

1. v. To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.
2. v. To obtain by force.
3. v. To hold tightly and press or twist.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch.
2. v. Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
3. v. To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
4. v. 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.
5. v. To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
6. v. (Naut.) To bend or strain out of its position.
7. v. To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.
8. n. obsolete A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. twist and press out of shape
2. n. a twisting squeeze
3. v. obtain by coercion or intimidation
4. v. twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
5. v. twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid