Definition of "wrung" []

• Past tense and past participle of wring. (verb)

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• "Luck's own darling, who had come down to spend the clean-up of the seventh fortune wrung from the frozen Arctic gravel."
• "The very money they dribble out in their child's schemes has been wrung from the poor."
• "Your brothers, to - day, are ignorant barbarians compared with me and the knowledge I have wrung from the books in the hours they were sleeping."