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  • past participle of wring.
  • past tense form of wring.
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wrung

[ruhng] / rʌŋ /
ADJECTIVE
squeezed out
Synonyms


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We wrung it out pretty hard, just to be sure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Emery has wrung everything out of his players.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

So forget the grandchildren, we are the people over whom so many hands have been wrung over the last 40 years.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026

All of these jornaleros knew each other, maybe not by their real names, but by nicknames, usually wrung from the place they had lived.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026

The princess narrowed her eyes at the small councilman, who wrung his hands and dabbed his forehead with a handkerchief.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas




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