Verb

To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.

You must wring your wet jeans before hanging them out to dry.

* Bible, Judg. vi. 38

He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece.

* Shakespeare

Your overkindness doth wring tears from me.

To obtain by force.

The police said they would wring the truth out of that heinous criminal.

To hold tightly and press or twist.

Some of the patients waiting in the dentist's office were wringing their hands nervously.

He said he'd wring my neck if I told his girlfriend.

He wrung my hand enthusiastically when he found out we were related.

* Francis Bacon

The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.

* Bible, Leviticus i. 15

The priest shall bring it [a dove] unto the altar, and wring off his head

To writhe; to twist, as if in anguish.

To kill and animal, usually poultry, by breaking its neck by twisting.

* Shakespeare

'Tis all men's office to speak patience / To those that wring under the load of sorrow.

To pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.

* Clarendon

Too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune.

* Addison

Didst thou taste but half the griefs / That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly.

To distort; to pervert; to wrest.

* Whitgift

How dare men thus wring the Scriptures?

To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.

* Shakespeare

To wring the widow from her 'customed right.

* Hayward

The merchant adventurers have been often wronged and wringed to the quick.

(nautical) To bend or strain out of its position.

to wring a mast

Verb

(ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}

To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.

To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Shake off the golden slumber of repose.

* (John Bunyan) (1628-1688)

I could scarcely shake him out of my company.

To disturb emotionally; to shock.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).

To move from side to side.

*, chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking .}}

To shake hands.

To dance.

To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.