WRINGING
- to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid wring a towel dry
- extract or obtain by or as if by twisting and compressing wring water from a towel wring a confession from the suspect
- twist so as to strain or sprain into a distorted shape I could wring your neck
- twist together (clasped hands) as a sign of anguish
- affect painfully as if by wringing torment a tragedy that wrings the heart