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wrung out
adjective as in worn
Strong matches
adjective as in worn/worn-out
Weak matches
- beat
- burned out
- bushed
- busted
- clichéd
- consumed
- depleted
- destroyed
- deteriorated
- drained
- drawn
- effete
- exhausted
- fatigued
- frayed
- gone
- hackneyed
- had it
- haggard
- jaded
- kaput
- knocked out
- old
- out of gas
- overused
- overworked
- pinched
- played-out
- pooped
- ragged
- ruined
- shabby
- shot
- spent
- stale
- tattered
- the worse for wear
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired out
- totaled
- used-up
- useless
- wearied
- weary
- well-worn
- wiped-out
- worn-down
Example Sentences
A strainer of bark cloth is plunged into it at times, and wrung out so as to carry away the small fragments of root.
I break down at every paragraph, I may observe; and lie here and sweat, till I can get one sentence wrung out after another.
She was muddy to the knees, but she wrung out her heavy skirts and ran along the path she knew to the door of the deserted house.
It was a statement wrung out of him, requiring no comment, for he at once resumed the steady pull on the six-foot, cross-cut saw.
Clean pieces of gauze may be wrung out of lime water and placed over the inflamed and much swollen surface, keeping them very wet.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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