wring
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From Middle English wring, wringe, wringen, wryng, wrynge, wryngen, wryngyn, from Old English wringan (“to wring”), from Proto-Germanic *wringaną (“to squeeze, twist, wring”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wrenǵʰ- (“to squeeze, wring”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wring (“to wring”), Saterland Frisian wringe (“to wring”), Dutch wringen (“to wring; to wrest; to writhe”), German ringen (“to wrestle; to struggle; to wring”), wringen (“to wring”), Luxembourgish réngen (“to grapple, wrestle”); also Ancient Greek ῥίμφα (rhímpha, “fast, nimbly, rapidly”), Lithuanian rangýti (“to roll up; to curl, twist, wave”).
Inflected forms:
form: wrings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wringing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wrung
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wrung
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wrang
pos: verb
tags: archaic
dialectal
participle
past
form: wrang
pos: verb
tags: archaic
dialectal
past
form: wringed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: wringed
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: wring
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: wring
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: wringed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: wring
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: wringest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: wringed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: wringedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: wrings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wringeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: wringed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: wring
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: wringed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: wring
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: wringed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: wring
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: wringing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wringed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I didn’t have a towel so I just wrung my hair dry.
[…] Protagenes portrai[e]d Venus vvith a ſponge ſprinkled with ſvvéete vvater, but if once ſhe vvrong it, it vvould droppe blood: […]
O my belly ſeeths like a Porridge-pot, ſome cold water I ſhall boyle ouer elſe; my whole body is in a ſweat, that you may wring my ſhirt; feele here— […]
[T]hat greater numbers of them [pores], […] are perforations that paſs quite through the Leather, may, not improbably, be ſhewn by the uſual Practice of Chymiſts, to purify Quick-ſilver by typing it up ſtrictly in a piece of kids or ſheeps Leather, and then wringing it hard to force it out; […]
[W]e contrived to satisfy the cravings of thirst by suffering the shirts to become saturated, and then wringing them so as to let the grateful fluid trickle into our mouths.
[H]e had sometimes wrung a dirty dishcloth into a customer’s soup before taking it in, just to be revenged upon a member of the bourgeoisie.
gloss: Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “I feel I’ve been wrung through a wringer,” Maggie said.
gloss: Often followed by from or out: to extract (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing, twisting, or otherwise putting pressure on it.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
transitive
examples: Put the berries into a cheesecloth and wring the juice into a bowl.
And whan he roſe vp early on the morow, he wrãge [wrange] yͤ dew out of the fleſe, and fylled a dyſſhe full of water.
At the end of this very long walk stands a woman in white marble, in posture of a laundress wringing water out of a piece of linen, very naturally formed, into a vast lavor the work and invention of M[ichel] Angelo Buonarotti.
[He] wrung the urine out of his perriwig, and lifting up a large ſtone, flung it with ſuch force againſt the ſtreet-door of that house from whence he had been bedewed, that the lock giving way, it flew wide open, […]
[Y]ou have to dig the moor and dry the marsh, to bid the morass give forth instead of engulphing, and to wring the honey and oil out of the rock.
Heinz could have wrung enough vinegar out of Cally’s look to run his pickle works.
[…]I thought that he was as pleased by the shock value of what he had to say as he was thrilled by the spectacle of wringing his own blood from the sodden gauze pad into the sodden towel.
gloss: To hold (someone or something) tightly and press or twist; to wrest.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
transitive
examples: to wring someone’s hand
to wring the neck of a chicken
And some I vysyte with brennynge of fyre; / Of some I wrynge of the necke lyke a wyre; […]
[O]ne toke the other by the tip of the finger, for hand would there none be wrongẽ [wrongen] thorow the grate, […]
[W]ith a ſoft ſleeke hand I’le clappe thy cheeke, / And wring thy fingers vvith an ardent gripe: […]
[I]t is a hint / That wrings mine eyes too’t.
[T]here iſſued out of the middeſt of the water a ſerpent, of fire, and hee as ſoone as hee perceiued it, leaped vpon her, and hanging by her ſquamie ſhoulders he wroong her throat ſo ſtraitly betweene both his armes, that the Serpent perceiuing her ſelfe to be well nigh ſtrangled, had no other way to ſaue her ſelfe, but by diuing down into the deeps, […]
Who would know Sinne, let him repair / Unto mount Olivet; there ſhall he ſee / A man ſo wrung with pains, that all his hair, / His skinne, his garments bloudie be.
Come hither, you dog you, and let me wring your neck round your shoulders.
Towards the middle of the laſt act, […] there is no neceſſity for ſpeaking, they are only to groan at each other, they muſt vary the tones of exclamation and deſpair through the whole theatrical gamut, wring their figures into every ſhape of diſtreſs, […]
[I]f the warst come to the warst, it's but wringing the head o' him about at last.
Margaret could not speak for crying; but she wrung his hand at parting.
Jason stood, slowly wringing the brim of his hat in his hands.
Every chance you got you just stared at yourself in a mirror with open lips, and I had to wring your ears to make you do any work.
gloss: To hold (someone or something) tightly and press or twist; to wrest.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
transitive
examples: to wring one’s hands with worry
Come you whoſe loues are dead, / And whiles I ſing / Weepe and wring / Euery hand and euery head, […]
Ah! wherefore doſt thou wring thy tender Hands / In woeful Attitude?
[P]erſons in violent grief wring their hands and convulſe their countenances; […]
The wind sawed, and the sawdust whirled. The shrubs wrung their many hands, bemoaning that they had been over-persuaded by the sun to bud; […]
gloss: To bend or strain (something) out of its position; to wrench, to wrest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to wring a mast
[B]y the couetous prieſtes of Baall through defaulte of good & godly Counſayllours, whome (doubte ye not but this wicked rable founde meanes to wring out of fauour, & to remoue awaye from the Kynges preſence) he was ſo coumpaced, weyghed, perſuaded, woonne, bewitched, peruerted & ſo farre ſeduced: yͭ (as the ſcripture recordeth), he did eiuil in the ſyght of the Lorde euen after the abominacyons of the heathen.
Why, he wrong a club / Once in a fray out of the hande of Belzebub.
[N]ow you haue my opinion, you muſt not thinke to wring me from it, for I had rather be as all women are, obſtinate in mine owne conceipt, then apt to be wrought to others conſtructions.
And the Prieſt ſhall bring it [a dove] vnto the altar, and wring off his head, and burne it on the altar: […]
Our Bodies are unhappily made the Weapons of Sin; and therefore if we would overcome that, we muſt by an auſtere Courſe of Duty firſt wring theſe Weapons out of its Hands.
He who but one yet living here can lead, / Or who the life from both their hearts can wring, / Shall be the kingdom's heir, a glorious meed!
I shall boast it mine—the balsam, bless each kindly wrench that wrung / From life's tree its inmost virtue, tapped the root whence pleasure sprung, / Barked the bole, and broke the bough, and bruised the berry, left all grace / Ashes in death's stern alembic, loosed elixir in its place!
I'll wring his calf's head off his body with these hands, Dick!
gloss: To contort or screw up (the face or its features).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Then would I laugh to ſee my lady pout, / And ſmyle when moſt ſhe wroung her mouth awry; […]
VVould'ſt haue me cry, run rauing vp & dovvn, / For my ſons loſſe? vvould'ſt haue me turn rank mad, / Or vvring my face vvith mimick action; / Stampe, curſe, vveepe, rage, & then my boſome ſtrike?
[W]hen he [a dog] fauneth vpon a man he vvringeth his ſk[i]nne in the forehead.
When pain and anguish wring the brow, / A ministering angel thou!— […]
He got to bed with these parti-coloured thoughts; passed from one dream to another all night long, the white face of Teresa still haunting him, wrung with unspoken thoughts; […]
gloss: To twist or wind (something) into coils; to coil.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch or press (a person or part of their body), causing pain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Myselfe can tell best where my shooe doth wring mee.
[T]he muſicke likes me not, and I haue a ſhooe vvrings me to'th heart; beſides I haue a vvomans reaſon, I vvill not daunce, becauſe I vvill not daunce: […]
Is this not a goodly ſhooe? is it not finely made? and is it not nevve? yet I dare ſaye there is neuer a one of you can tell vvhere it vvringeth me.
[…] I vvill let no cobvvebs fall into my eyes, for I knovv vvhere my ſhoo vvrings me: […]
But for the extirpating of the Rootes and cauſes of the like Commotions in time to come, the King began to find vvhere his Shooe did vvring him, and that it vvas his depreſſing of the Houſe of Yorke, that did ranckle and feſter the affections of his People.
gloss: To cause (someone or something) physical harm, injury, or pain; specifically, by applying pressure or by twisting; to harm, to hurt, to injure.
pos: verb
tags: UK
also
archaic
dialectal
figuratively
transitive
examples: A Lorde God, howe the gowte wryngeth me by the too!
I preethe Tom beat Cuts ſaddle; put a fevv flockes in the point, poor iade is vvroong in the vvithers, out of all ceſſe.
Then good Euphues wring not a horſe on the withers, with a falſe ſaddle, neither imagin what I am by thy thoughts, but mine own doings: […]
All breathing Death, around their Chief [Achilles] they ſtand, / A grim, terrific, formidable Band [the Myrmidons]: / Grim as voracious VVolves that ſeek the Springs / VVhen ſcalding Thirſt their burning Bovvels vvrings.
gloss: To cause (tears) to come out from a person or their eyes.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: And art thou come, Horatio from the deapth, / To aske for iuſtice in this vpper earth? / To tell thy father thou art vnreuengde, / To vvring more teares from Iſabellas eyes: / VVhoſe lights are dim'd vvith ouer-long laments.
The gripe of chaunce is vveake, to vvring a teare, / From him that knovves vvhat fortitude ſhould beare.
[S]hame upon thee, / It vvrings the Tears from Grillon's Iron Heart, / And melts me to a Babe.
But it is not, it is not, a ſmall diſtreſs that can vvring tears from theſe old eyes, that have not vvept for ſo many years.
A foolish dream that from my brow hath wrung / A wrathful dew.
gloss: To cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart, soul, etc.); to distress, to torment.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: And if he had not too much cheriſh’d his natural conſtitution, and propenſity; and been too much griev’d, and wrung by an uneaſy and ſtreight Fortune; he would have been an excellent Man of buſineſs, […]
Oh Portius, didſt thou taſte but half the Griefs / That wring my Soul, thou cou’dſt not talk thus coldly, […]
[T]hough he has wrung my heart, for I am ſick almoſt to fainting, very ſick, my fellow priſoner, yet that ſhall never inſpire me with vengeance.
I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.
And then to want and not to have—to want and want—how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
gloss: To obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by extortion or other force.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The police said they would wring the truth out of that criminal.
No Harry, Harry, ’tis no Land of thine; / Thy place is fill’d, thy Scepter vvrung from thee, […]
[I]f I could vvring ought from my ſelfe, not vnvvorthie of a iudicious Reader; […]
Torture ſhould not vvring it from me, I aſſure you.
Hard hands have wrung from me my goods, my money, my ships, and all that I possessed—Yet I can tell thee what thou lackest, and it may be, supply it too.
The malcontents flattered themselves, […] that it would be found impossible to restore public credit, to obtain advances from capitalists, or to wring taxes out of the distressed population, […]
It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
[T]he enormous profits thus wrung from convict labor are a constant incentive to the contractors to exact from their unhappy victims tasks altogether beyond their strength, and to punish them cruelly when their work does not come up to the excessive demands made.
Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain on the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver—out of his earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself on. He took his life from this earth; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food silver.
[H]is confidences were not wrung from him against his will but gushed like oil from a well, […]
gloss: To use effort to draw (a response, words, etc.) from or out of someone; to generate (something) as a response.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: O noble ſir! / Your ouer kindneſſe doth vvring teares from me, […]
My buſie heart ſhall ſpin it all my dayes: / And vvhen it ſtops for vvant of ſtore, / Then vvill I vvring it vvith a ſigh or grone, / That thou mayſt yet have more.
[T]hirty ſpies, / VVho threatning cruel death conſtrain'd the bride / To vvring from me and tell to them my ſecret, / That ſolv'd the riddle vvhich I had propos'd.
Whilst monarchs laughed upon their thrones / To hear a famished nation's groans, / And hugged the wealth wrung from the woe / That makes its eyes and veins o'erflow,— […]
O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung / By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear,
And thoughts that once wrung groans of anguish, / Now cause but some mild tears to flow.
Words like these, I observed, always troubled them; and I had no small satisfaction in wringing from the boys, occasionally, that fresh and bitter condemnation of slavery, that springs from nature, unseared and unperverted.
gloss: To afflict or oppress (someone) to enforce compliance; to extort.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
obsolete
transitive
examples: VVho can be bound by any ſolemne Vovv[…]
To vvring the VViddovv from her cuſtom’d right,
And have no other reaſon for this vvrong,
But that he vvas bound by a ſolemne Oath?
[T]he Merchant aduenturers haue beene often vvronged and vvringed to the quicke, […]
Time wasted is Exiſtence, us'd is Life.
And bare Exiſtence, Man, to live ordain’d, / Wrings, and oppreſſes with enormous Weight.
gloss: To cause (someone) to do something or to think a certain way.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
obsolete
transitive
examples: For men be ſo parciall alway to theim ſelfe, that our hart euer thinketh the iudgement wrong, that wringeth vs to the worſe.
gloss: To change (something) into another thing.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
obsolete
transitive
examples: As the wines which flow from the first treading of the grape are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which gives them the roughness of the husk and the stone, so are those doctrines best and sweetest which flow from a gentle crush of the Scriptures, and are not wrung into controversies and common-places.
gloss: To give (teachings, words, etc.) an incorrect meaning; to twist, to wrest.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
obsolete
transitive
examples: Lord, how dare these men thus wring the scriptures?
Or elſe they vvould ſtraine us out a certaine figurative Prelat, by vvringing the collective allegory of thoſe ſeven Angels into ſeven ſingle Rochets.
gloss: To put (oneself) in a position by cunning or subtle means; to insinuate.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
obsolete
reflexive
transitive
examples: Drudges, that haue no extraordinarie giftes of bodie nor of minde, filche themselues into some noble-mans seruice, either by bribes or by flatterie, and, when they are there, they so labour it with cap and knee, and ply it with priuie whisperinges, that they wring themsleues into his good opinion ere he be aware.
VVe vvring our ſelues into this vvretched vvorld, / To pule, and vveepe, exclaime, to curſe and raile, / To fret, and ban the fates, to ſtrike the earth / As I doe novv.
gloss: To slide (two ultraflat surfaces) together such that their faces bond.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For a given set of blocks with lengths in multiples of thousandths the lengths may be so selected as to make it possible, by combining different blocks in wringing contact end to end, to form a series having any desired length, measured in inches and thousandths; […]
The number of optical wringing procedures performed for each gauge block was five, and the number of measurements for each wringing procedure was eleven.
The pack experiment method to evaluate phase correction is valuable in that the differences associated with wringing two different materials and/or surface finishes between the gauge blocks and the platen may be accounted for in the averaging over the pack gauge blocks.
The uncertainty of wringing effect is 6.9 nm, which can be determined by wringing the same gauge block on the base plate repeatedly.
gloss: To be engaged in clasping and twisting (especially the hands), or exerting pressure.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Go wash well, saith Sommer, with sunne I shall drie, / go wring well, saith Winter, with winde so shall I.
[…] Mr. VVet-eyes vvent vvith hands vvringing together.
jacopo foscari. They will not banish me again?—No—no, / Let them wring on; I am strong yet. / guard. Confess, / And the rack will be spared you.
The Haunted Wood was full of the groans of mighty trees wrung in the tempest, and the air throbbed with the thunderous crash of billows on the distant shore.
Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it. […] And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang.
gloss: To twist the body in or as if in pain; to writhe.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: No, no, tis all mens office to ſpeake patience / To thoſe that vvring vnder the loade of ſorrovv […]
Bel[arius]. He vvrings at ſome diſtreſſe. / Gui[derius]. VVould I could free't.
Oh lord how his feat feete and handes he wrang, / Beſeeching his great god, that day to guide him, / And from his mortall ennemie to deuide him: […]
[H]ovv is it [a worm] vexed vvith the ſcorching beames [of the sun], and vvrings vp and dovvne, in an helpleſſe perplexity; not finding vvhere to ſhrovvd it ſelfe; hovv obnoxious is it to the ſoules of the ayre, to the feet of men, and beaſts?
In hydra-wrestle, giant ‘Millocracy’ so called, a real giant, though as yet a blind one and but half-awake, wrestles and wrings in choking nightmare, ‘like to be strangled in the partridge-nets of Phantasm-Aristocracy,’ as we said, which fancies itself still to be a giant.
gloss: To contend, to struggle; also, to strive, to toil.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Thus chaunce hath (by exchaunge) the flie ſo trapt, / That ſodainly he loſt his libertee: / The more he wrange, the faſter was he wrapt [in the spider's web] / And all to thencreaſe of his ieoberdee, […]
gloss: To experience distress, pain, punishment, etc.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: [A]ll Ambaſſadours / (You knovv) haue chiefly theſe inſtructions; / […] / [T]o obſerue the countenances and ſpirites, / Of ſuch as are impatient of reſt; / And vvring beneath, ſome priuate diſcontent: […]
gloss: Of a lode: to be depleted of ore; to peter or peter out.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make a way out with difficulty.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: A powerful squeezing or twisting action.
pos: noun
tags: also
figuratively
examples: I grasped his hand and gave it a grateful wring.
The VVring by the hand, and the Banquet is ours.
And hauing clipt them vvith pretence of loue, / Haue I not cruſht them vvith a cruell vvring?
Yet do I vnderſtand your darkeſt language, / Your treads ath'toe, your ſecret iogges and vvringes: / Your entercourſe of glaunces: euery tittle / Of your cloſe Amorous rites I vnderſtand, / They ſpeake as loud to mee, as if you ſaid, / My deareſt Dariotto, I am thine.
Martha was ever the more active. She, that was before so busily stirring in her house to entertain Jesus, was now as nimble to go forth of her house to meet him. She, in whose face joy had wont to smile upon so Blessed a guest, now salutes him with the sighs and tears and blubbers and wrings of a disconsolate manner.
Lo[ry]. […] I have been in a lamentable fright, Sir, ever ſince your Conſcience had the Impudence to intrude into your Company. / Y[oung] Faſ[hion]. Be at peace; it vvill come there no more: My Brother has given it a vvring by the Noſe, and I have kick'd it dovvn Stairs.
[…] James, with one wring of the hand, retreated, while old nurse was nearly hugged to death, declaring all the time that he didn't ought to have come in such a way, terrifying everyone out of their senses!
He was still holding me by the wrist, and at that he gave it quite a wring.
I tried not to give his poor hand too much of a wring (another of my bad habits); but he took all I gave and even seemed to hang on for a little more.
gloss: Followed by down: the product of wringing, such as cider or wine.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: She had just got off her mare to look at the last wring-down of cider for the year; […]
gloss: A sharp physical pain, especially in the abdomen; also, mental pain or distress.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Hens dung ſvvallovved [by a horse] by hap, bringeth frets and vvrings in the bellie: […]
[T]here vvas brought unto him an horſe named Babylonius, vvhich happening to be ſore vexed vvith a ſuddaine gripe or vvring in his belly, fell dovvne, and vvhiles hee vvas not able to endure the paine, vvallovveth along, and happeneth to beſprent his capariſon and ornaments richly garniſhed vvith gold and precious ſtones. At vvhich ſtrange ſight he tooke great joy, and cryed out, vvith the applauſe of thoſe next about him, That Babylon vvas fallen, and lay along on the ground diſpoyled of all her ornaments.
When we have good dayes we slight them, when they are gone, we sinke under the wring of sorrow, for their losse; and want teacheth vs the worth of things more truely: and it is a true saying, Blessings appeare not, till they bee vanished.
Related words: glean
Derived words: hand wringing
wringable
wringbolt
wringer
wringing wet
wring out
wring-stave
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: քամել
roman: kʻamel
lang: Bashkir
word: һығыу
roman: hığıw
lang: Bulgarian
word: изстисквам
roman: izstiskvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: изцеждам чрез извиване
roman: izceždam črez izvivane
lang: Catalan
word: esprémer
lang: Catalan
word: escórrer
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 絞 /绞
roman: jiǎo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 擰 /拧
roman: níng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 扭
roman: niǔ
lang: Czech
word: ždímat
lang: Danish
word: vride
lang: Dutch
word: uitwringen
lang: Egyptian
word: i-a:f
roman: jꜥf
lang: Esperanto
word: premtordi
lang: Esperanto
word: vringi
lang: Finnish
word: vääntää
lang: French
word: essorer
lang: Friulian
word: stuargi
lang: Galician
word: espremer
lang: German
word: wringen
lang: German
word: auswringen
lang: Greek
word: στείβω
roman: steívo
lang: Greek
word: στραγγίζω
roman: strangízo
lang: Hebrew
word: סחט
roman: sakhát
lang: Hungarian
word: kinyom
lang: Hungarian
word: kicsavar
lang: Indonesian
word: peras
lang: Italian
word: spremere
lang: Japanese
word: 絞る
roman: shiboru
lang: Khmer
word: ច្បាច់
roman: cbac
lang: Khmer
word: ពូត
roman: puut
lang: Latvian
word: griezt
lang: Manx
word: faast
lang: Māori
word: tatau
lang: Mongolian
word: мушгих
roman: mušgix
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠮᠤᠰᠭᠢᠬᠤ
roman: musgiqu
lang: Norman
word: teurtre
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vri
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: vri
lang: Persian
word: چلاندن
roman: čelândan
lang: Polish
word: wyżymać
lang: Polish
word: wyżąć
lang: Portuguese
word: torcer
lang: Rarotongan
word: tatau
lang: Romanian
word: stoarce
lang: Russian
word: выжима́ть
roman: vyžimátʹ
lang: Russian
word: вы́жать
roman: výžatʹ
lang: Russian
word: выкру́чивать
roman: vykrúčivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: вы́крутить
roman: výkrutitʹ
lang: Samoan
word: tatau
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: snìomh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: исције́дити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: iscijéditi
lang: Spanish
word: exprimir
lang: Spanish
word: retorcer
lang: Spanish
word: escurrir
lang: Spanish
word: estrujar
lang: Spanish
word: lagarear
lang: Swedish
word: vrida ur
lang: Tongan
word: tatau
lang: Tuamotuan
word: tau
lang: Vietnamese
word: vắt
lang: Bulgarian
word: стискам
roman: stiskam
lang: Bulgarian
word: извивам врата
roman: izvivam vrata
lang: Catalan
word: retòrcer
lang: Catalan
word: retorçar
lang: Danish
word: vride
lang: Dutch
word: wringen
lang: Finnish
word: vääntää niskat nurin
lang: Galician
word: retorcer
lang: Indonesian
word: remas
lang: Māori
word: kōwiri
lang: Māori
word: tāwhiri
lang: Portuguese
word: torcer
lang: Russian
word: сжима́ть
roman: sžimátʹ
lang: Russian
word: сжать
roman: sžatʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: snìomh
lang: Spanish
word: retorcer
lang: Spanish
word: despescuezar
lang: Spanish
word: espescuezar
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بورمق
roman: burmak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بوكمك
roman: bükmek