Definition of "wring" []

• To twist, squeeze, or compress, especially so as to extract liquid. Often used with out. (verb-transitive)
• To extract (liquid) by twisting or compressing. Often used with out. (verb-transitive)
• To wrench or twist forcibly or painfully: wring the neck of a chicken. (verb-transitive)
• To clasp and twist or squeeze (one's hands), as in distress. (verb-transitive)
• To clasp firmly and shake (another's hand), as in congratulation. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Note how few public concessions (none) Obama was able to wring from the Chinese about"
• "Now this is nothing more than an attempt on the part of the translator to wring from the Old English lines some scrap of proof for the peculiar theory that he holds of the origin of the poem."
• "These improved weapons will inevitably demand the rearmament of the armies of Germany, Austria, Italy, France, and Russia, at an estimated cost of not less than $754,000,000, a sum which will tax the wits of the parliaments to wring from the groaning workers."