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Wringed vs Ringed - What's the difference?

wringed | ringed |

As verbs the difference between wringed and ringed

is that wringed is (wring) while ringed is (ring) (etymology 1 only; the circle sense) .

As an adjective ringed is

marked with rings, circles or loops.

wringed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wring)

    • wring

    English

    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

    References

    * * English irregular verbs ----

    ringed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Marked with rings, circles or loops.
  • Wearing a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded.
  • * Tennyson
    • a ringed wife

    Derived terms

    * ringed seal * ringed snake * ringed worm

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ring) (Etymology 1 only; the circle sense)

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