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

(squeez)

To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once

I squeezed the ball between my hands.

Please don't squeeze the toothpaste tube in the middle.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

"Over there—by the rock," Steele muttered, with his brush between his teeth, squeezing out raw sienna, and keeping his eyes fixed on Betty Flanders's back.

(ambitransitive) To fit into a tight place

I managed to squeeze the car into that parking space.

Can you squeeze through that gap?

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* 1908 ,

Could he not squeeze under the seat of a carriage? He had seen this method adopted by schoolboys, when the journey- money provided by thoughtful parents had been diverted to other and better ends.

To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty

He squeezed some money out of his wallet.

To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices

I'm being squeezed between my job and my volunteer work.

* 2013 May 23, , " British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):

At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.

(figurative) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.

* L'Estrange

In a civil war, people must expect to be crushed and squeezed toward the burden.

(baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting

Jones squeezed in Smith with a perfect bunt.