wring 的 3 个定义
wrung, wring·ing.
- to twist forcibly: He wrung the chicken's neck.
- to twist and compress, or compress without twisting, in order to force out water or other liquid: to wring clothes.
- to extract or expel by twisting or compression.
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wrung, wring·ing.
- to perform the action of wringing something.
- to writhe, as in anguish.
- a wringing; forcible twist or squeeze.
wring 近义词
twist, contort
更多wring例句
- Some things never change as we wring out the old year and ring in the new one.
- To wring all that can be wrung from metaphor, note what our elected and appointed officials are not dressed as.
- It would wring our gizzards intolerably to see so much good stuff going to waste.
- This makes what Obama and John Kerry manage to wring out of the Russians in the next two days absolutely crucial.
- It could find other ways to wring costs of its operations, like using less packaging or electricity.
- It was difficult, with the mean appliances of the time, to wring subsistence from the reluctant earth.
- They like things on a small scale and know how to wring a dollar out of every five-cent piece.
- Rinse it through a clean, lukewarm water; wring it lengthways, and stretch it well.
- If the latter, of course the owner could wring the cocks neck and the incident would be closed.
- But unless he loses his voice before long I shall have to wring his neck—no easy job—or do without my usual amount of sleep.