wring Definition

wring
verb wrung, wringing

1. To force liquid from it by twisting or squeezing.

Form: wring something out (also)
2. To force (information or a consent, etc) from someone.

Thesaurus: squeeze, coerce, extract, extort, force, rend, wrench.
3. To break (the neck) of a bird, etc by twisting.
4. To keep clasping and twisting (one's hands) in distress or agitation.
5. To crush (someone's hand) in one's own, by way of greeting.
6. To tear at (the heart as the supposed seat of the emotions).

Idiom: wringing wet

Soaking wet; saturated.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon wringan.