Wring

Definition

wring /rÇŋ/ v ( pt, pp wrung /rʌŋ/) ၁။ (က) ~ sth (out) ေရ၊ အရည္ညႇစ္သည္။ He wrung the clothes (out) before putting them on the line to dry. (ခ) ~ sth out (of sth) အဝတ္ ေရညႇစ္သည္။ Wring the water out of your swimming costume. ၂။ ၾကက္ငွက္ လည္လိမ္သတ္သည္။ ❏ wringer /'rÇŋǝ(r)/ n အဝတ္ေရညႇစ္စက္။ Compare MANGLE n ❏ wring one's hands [ IDM ] (ေသာကစိတ္၊ ဝမ္းနည္းစိတ္ စသည့္ ခံစားခ်က္ေၾကာင့္) လက္ခ်င္း ဖ်စ္ညႇစ္သည္။ It's no use just wringing our hands — we must do something to help. ❏ wringing wet adj ေရစက္လက္ျဖစ္ေနေသာ (အဝတ္)။ ❏ wring sb's neck [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္စကား) ကုပ္ခ်ဳိးပစ္လိုက္မယ္။ If I find the person who scratched my car, I'll wring his neck! ❏ wring sth out of/from sb [ PHRV ] ညႇစ္ယူသည္။ ညႇစ္ထုတ္သည္။ wring a confession from sb ❍ They managed to wring a promise out of her.

Examples

1. ‘The was a light knock on the door and Sister Nicci stood wringing out Cassandra's hair and shaking her hands then opened the door.’
2. ‘We would walk off after each scene; literally wringing our shirts dry of sweat.’
3. ‘The heart twists blood out the same way you'd wring a towel to get water out.’
4. ‘Blanch the spinach until wilted
5. then drain well
6. wringing thoroughly with your hands until it's dry.’
7. ‘Once the vat was emptied
8. the crowd of family and friends clapped and cheered and we were given strict instructions after changing not to wring the clothes out - for this would squeeze out the good that had been done.’
9. ‘Next
10. dissolve some pure soap flakes in warm water and rub all over the furniture
11. paying careful attention to the soiled areas
12. with a towel wrung out in this soapy water.’
13. ‘Then
14. over your eyes
15. place a soft
16. scented washcloth that has been wrung out in warm lavender water (two cups water with five drops lavender essential oil).’
17. ‘Kou wrung out his wet clothes and set them over the side of the tub.’
18. ‘So as the three of us dried off
19. wrung out our suits
20. dried our hair
21. and got dressed as we discussed Möbius
22. their eclectic original music
23. and their profound musicianship.’
24. ‘He lifted it out
25. wrung it
26. and pressed the cloth against his forehead.’
27. ‘Debbie looked satisfied
28. and wrung out the dishcloth more cheerfully.’
29. ‘She heard the sound of water being wrung from a cloth and felt its damp warmth pressed to her lip- and a searing stab of pain!’
30. ‘Victoria wrung out the washcloth into the basin and hung it on its peg.’
31. ‘You had to watch every garment as it was wrung
32. in order that it did not wrap over the top roller and become entangled.’
33. ‘Ellianne watched her brother soak the linen
34. wring it and press it to her eyes.’
35. ‘Prop maker Peter Greenwood found a real mangle so the dame can wring clothes in the panto's slapstick scenes.’
36. ‘He wrung out his cloth and began wiping spilled ale off the counter.’
37. ‘Gently wipe away all traces of the cleanser with a face washer wrung out in tepid water
38. rinsing at least twice more in warm water.’
39. ‘Gently wipe away all traces of the cleansing lotion with a flannel wrung out in hand-hot water
40. rinsing at least twice more in hot water.’
41. ‘I wrung out a cold washrag
42. let it soak in the hot water as I brushed my hair
43. then braided it into a tight braid in the back of my head.’