Wrung vs Warung - What's the difference?
wrung | warung |
(wring)
To squeeze or twist tightly so that liquid is forced out.
* Bible, Judg. vi. 38
* Shakespeare
To obtain by force.
To hold tightly and press or twist.
* Francis Bacon
* Bible, Leviticus i. 15
To writhe; to twist, as if in anguish.
To kill and animal, usually poultry, by breaking its neck by twisting.
* Shakespeare
To pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
* Clarendon
* Addison
To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
* Whitgift
To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
* Shakespeare
* Hayward
(nautical) To bend or strain out of its position.
A type of small family-owned business — often a casual, usually outdoor restaurant (or convenience store) — in Indonesia.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=2009-03-22, author=John Bowe, title=How Green Is My Bali, work=New York Times
, passage=And of Mozaic Restaurant, an absolutely trumped-up Wine Spectator/Grandes Tables du Monde affair where tabs can run up to $100 or more that served food far less interesting and tasty than the $1.50 plates of nasi campur at the local restaurants called warungs . }}
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As a verb wrung
is past tense of wring.As a noun warung is
a type of small family-owned business — often a casual, usually outdoor restaurant (or convenience store) — in Indonesia.wrung
English
Verb
(head)- I wrung out my wet jeans and hung them out to dry.
wring
English
Verb
- You must wring your wet jeans before hanging them out to dry.
- He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece.
- Your overkindness doth wring tears from me.
- The police said they would wring the truth out of that heinous criminal.
- 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.
- The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.
- The priest shall bring it [a dove] unto the altar, and wring off his head
- 'Tis all men's office to speak patience / To those that wring under the load of sorrow.
- Too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune.
- Didst thou taste but half the griefs / That wring my soul, thou couldst not talk thus coldly.
- How dare men thus wring the Scriptures?
- To wring the widow from her 'customed right.
- The merchant adventurers have been often wronged and wringed to the quick.
- to wring a mast
References
* * English irregular verbs ----warung
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