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Under strain or deprivation.
Pressed together or into less volume or space.
Done or brought about by force; not voluntary; compulsory
squeezed-out
(Informal) To extort from.
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To torture on a rack
To extract by applying pressure:
Extort is defined as using violence or threats to get something from someone.
To distort is defined as to change something or shape something in a way that changes it from the truth or from what it should be.
The definition of contort is to twist or bend out very out of shape.
To turn using a wrench:
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
To die from suffocation or strangulation; choke.
(US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.
To press, squeeze, or bind painfully:
To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.
To copy out or quote (a passage from a book, etc.); excerpt
To call for; make necessary; require
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To pull, draw, or stretch tight:
To divert or deflect:
Find another word for wrung. In this page you can discover 26 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for wrung, like: dried, twisted, pressed, compressed, forced, squeezed-out, gouged, racked, squeezed, extorted and deformed.
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