wring

«wring» in Mova's school dictionary: to twist and squeeze it hard to get water out of it, as… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (wring, wrings, wrung, wringing)

meaning for a pupil

1) To wring something is to twist and squeeze it hard to get water out of it, as with a wet cloth. tree →

2) To wring your hands is to rub and twist them together because you are worried. tree →

3) To wring a bird's neck means to twist it to kill it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, people wring out wet cloths, swimming costumes and mops. In stories, someone «wringing their hands» is very worried. «Wring something out of someone» means get it with great effort. Phrases: «wring out», «wring your hands», «wringing wet» (very wet).

examples

• Wring out the cloth before you wipe the table. tree →
• She wrung her swimsuit over the sink. tree →
• He was wringing his hands while he waited for the news. tree →
• Our clothes were wringing wet after the storm. tree →
• Twist the towel hard to wring the water out. tree →
• The detective finally wrung the truth out of him. tree →
• Weeping and wringing her hands, the girl went down to her mother. tree →

note

Irregular verb: wring, wrung, wrung (not «wringed»). The w is silent, so «wring» sounds like «ring» — a homophone trap. «Wringing wet» means soaked.

In the corpora

• Cleaning machines do the boring jobs people once did by hand: scrubbing clothes, wringing them out, beating carpets and pressing creases.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wring» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.