wringingn.

Etymology: < wring v. + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwringing.

a. The action of the verb, in various senses; the fact of being wrung.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun]

throwingOE

wringinga1375

twining1398

wrenching1398

wresting1398

writhing?a1400

wrying1566

wreathing1571

convolution1597

twinding1602

contortion1611

distorquement1628

distortion1718

twisting1725

quirling1754

circumgyration1843

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] > expression of pain

wringinga1375

quetching1676

pain behaviour1953

the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > [noun] > by pressure or squeezing

wringinga1375

the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [noun] > action of wringing (the heart)

wringinga1375

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > other manifestations of sorrow > [noun] > wringing of hands

hand-wringingc1330

wringinga1375

thrutchingc1540

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] > action of causing

painingc1450

wringing1548

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > pinching or pressure

pinchinga1413

tension1541

wringing1606

tensity1658

girdle-sensation1885

girdle-pains1897

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > other injuries

mischance1587

wringing1611

moonblow1851

industrial injury1855

beat elbow1905

pole-wound1908

boo-boo1932

neurapraxia1942

neurotmesis1942

owie1967

the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [noun] > action or fact of putting or being out of shape > distortion

beshrewinga1425

distortion1581

wryness1591

contortion1611

distorture1613

distortedness1684

wringing1706

twisting1725

cross-winding1815

twistification1835

detortion1853

twinge1860

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] > motion of

vermiculation1652

wringing1718

peristalsis1847

antiperistalsis1859

the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [noun] > strangulation

stranglec1386

strangling1398

chokingc1440

worrying1483

strangulation1542

throttling1599

wringing1843

mug1862

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 5452 Þer was siking.., weping & wringinge for wo at here hertes.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. cxii Oile..renneþ þe better and þe clenner oute of þe draffe in the wringinge and pressinge.

1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. c iij The peynfull wringing of so vneasie a yok.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares To Rdr. He hath but a slight wringing by the eares.

1606 J. Carpenter Schelomonocham xiv. f. 57 The wringing of the shoo being knowne to him only which weareth it.

1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xxx. 33 The wringing of the nose bringeth forth bloud.

1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 156 With..wringing of hands, knocking of breasts, tearing of haire.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Distorsion A wresting or wringing several Ways.

1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. 54 In this great Length of the Tube of the Bowels..no Body can encrease or diminish the Contractions or Wringings of the same.

1782 V. Knox Ess. (1819) III. clxiv. 224 That wringing of the hands, beating of the breast.

1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. iv. 64 The wringing of turkeys' necks.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House lv. 530 Her broken words, and her wringing of her hands.

b. figurative. The action of wresting or taking forcefully; extortion.

ΘΠ

the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun]

extortionc1340

askingc1400

extort power1492

exactiona1513

bribing1533

extort1541

pollage?1542

bloodsucking1548

scaffery1555

eviction1560

wringing1589

wresting1611

screwing1680

squeezing1681

extortinga1711

wringing1730

over-pull1867

Rachmanism1963

Rachmanship1963

1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Cij Ready to suffer wrong without wringing of reuenge out of Gods hand.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Dd4 Extortion,..An vnlawfull..wringing of mony or mony worth from any man.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Extorsion,..a violent wringing, or wresting of things from others.

c. With adverbs, as out, up.

ΘΠ

the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun]

extortionc1340

askingc1400

extort power1492

exactiona1513

bribing1533

extort1541

pollage?1542

bloodsucking1548

scaffery1555

eviction1560

wringing1589

wresting1611

screwing1680

squeezing1681

extortinga1711

wringing1730

over-pull1867

Rachmanism1963

Rachmanship1963

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 19 The wringing out of grapes to her husband.

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum at Extortion An unlawful..wringing out of money..from any person.

1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xi. 343 The miner..terms such points..of contact a nipping-in or wringing-up of the lode.

2. The action of squeezing or pressing water or moisture out of clothes, etc.; †the personal service of doing such. Also in figurative context.

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > wringing

wringing1560

1560 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 191 To find hym fyre and a chamber with all wessyng wry [n] ginge and one to help hym one with his clothes and of.

1587 Sc. Acts, Jas. VI (1814) III. 508/1 Meit drink clething bedding wesching and wringing.

1626–7 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1905) II. 92 My keepinge with..washinge, wringinge and other necessaryes during my life.

1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 16 My heart..in a font..was dipt and di'd, And washt, and wrung: the very wringing yet Enforceth tears.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. ix. 228 Breakfast shall be on the board in the wringing of a dish-clout.

1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 4th Ser. 96 The wringing [of wool]..is..effected thus.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2822/1 The ordinary wringing injures fine apparel.

†3.

a. A griping or wringing pain, esp. in the intestines. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in stomach or bowels

womb achea1398

gnawing1398

torsionc1425

colicc1440

frettingc1440

the wormc1500

wringc1500

griping1526

wresting?1543

wringing?1550

bellyache1552

torment1578

colic passion1586

wind-colic1593

belly-thrawe1595

belly-grinding1597

fret1600

gripe1601

wrenching1607

mulligrubsa1625

bellywarka1652

torminaa1655

efferation1684

stomach-ache1763

gastrodynia1804

guts-ache1818

stony colic1822

wame-ill1829

gastralgia1834

tummy ache1926

?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. L.iiii The rynde of the pyne apple tree..doth..take awaye the wryngyng of the bely.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 235 The gryping paynes and wringings of the bellie.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 445 The torments and wringing of the cholique.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Extorsion,..a violent wringing, or wresting of things from others.

1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ i. xxxvii. 83 The wringing of the Guts.

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. To Verminate,..to have a griping or wringing in the Belly.

†b. The action or fact of feeling remorse, apprehension, or mistrust; an instance of this. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [noun] > remorse

pityc1330

agenbite1340

griefa1375

out-thinkinga1382

remorse of conscience (also mind)c1410

remorsea1425

regreta1540

wringing1623

remord1625

resentment1646

heart-searching1647

remordency1658

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > [noun] > action of wresting or extortion

wringing1623

society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > pricking or murmuring of conscience

wormOE

prick of conscience?c1225

bitingc1440

compunction?a1475

grudge1483

pouncea1500

grutch1509

pincha1566

remurmuration of conscience1611

twinge1622

wringing1623

twinging1816

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. ii. 27 Doubts, wringing of the Conscience, Feares, and despaires.

1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker i. sig. C2^v No wringings in your minde now as you love me.

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 296 The weight and wringing that was then at his heart.

1776 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) IV. xvii. 114 He beheld her, in the wringings of penitential desolation.

4. Perversion; = wresting n. 2 ? Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun]

wrestingc1444

pervertinga1450

corruptiona1513

straining1528

writhing?1532

hacking1539

violence1546

racking1556

wrying1562

wringing1565

detorting1579

wrest1581

detortion1598

wrench1603

torture1605

distorting1610

violencing1612

refraction1614

misacception1629

distortion1650

distorture1709

misacceptation1721

torturing1753

verbicide1826

stretch1849

twisting1890

queeringness1955

1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 127 Hys wordes without wringing or wresting at all, be taken..to importe much lesse.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 279 Wordes in the Gospell, which (by wringyng and wrestyng) you doe accustome to force to your purpose.

1614 D. Dyke Myst. Selfe-deceiuing xvi. 210 Diueres such like wringings of Scripture.

1852 A. Jameson Legends Madonna 325 Without any wringing of the text for an especial purpose.

5. concrete. In plural, that which is wrung out. Also figurative.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > [noun] > that which is extracted by pressure

wringing1867

1867 E. B. Denison Astron. without Math. (ed. 3) 168 That great law..prevents the whole earth and the sea..from flying in pieces like the wringings of a mop.

1886 Browning in Maggs' Catal. Mar. (1897) 48 The ‘quality of lying is not strained’ in this particular case, but droppeth ‘as should the wringings of a felon brain for the sake of a dollar’.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as †wringing point.

a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 166 Then was Stigand, the Metropolitan,..fairly deposed, being too stiffe for the times: which was indeed the wringing point.

C2.

wringing-machine n. a machine for wringing clothes, etc., after washing; a wringer.

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > wringing > machine for

wringer1799

wringing-machine1833

power wringer1876

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §698 A washing and wringing machine.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 417/1 Wringing-machine Maker.

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wringingadj.

Etymology: < wring v. + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwringing.

†a. Of hands: That undergo wringing, squeezing, or pressing; wrung under distress. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adjective] > undergoing

wringinga1225

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > other manifestations of sorrow > [adjective] > wringing of hands

wringinga1225

hand-wringing1603

out-wrung1838

a1225 Leg. Kath. 2324 Heo..seh..wepmen & wummen, mid wringinde honden wepinde sare.

1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued ii. sig. B6 Another cryes with wringing handes.

1596 Roman Charity in Roxburghe Ballads VIII. 6 With wringing hands and bitter teares, these words pronounced she.

1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 73 Wringing Hands and Gnashing Teeth thenceforth and for ever.

b. quasi-adv. in wringing wet, very wet; so wet that moisture may be wrung out.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective]

thorough wetOE

drunk1382

drunkenc1420

uliginosec1440

dung wetc1450

drookeda1522

wet through, to the skin1526

sogginga1552

washed1557

washy1566

muck-wet1567

wringing wet1570

drenched1589

dropsy1605

ydrenched1610

sobby1611

dropsieda1616

slocken1643

uliginous1650

dabbling1661

sodded1661

sobbing1664

sobbed1693

flashy1702

saturated1728

saturate1785

livereda1796

sappy1806

laving1812

sodden1820

sopped1822

soppy1823

soaked1829

dropsical1845

soddened1845

soaking wet1847

soggya1852

sogged1860

soaking1864

sopping1866

soaken1898

astream1929

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > enough to be wrung out

wringing wet1570

dropping wet1605

dripping wet1835

1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iv. f. 49^v Maydens..dabbled all with durt, and wringing wette.

1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 367^v/2 To dry their clothes y^t were wringing weat.

a1600 R. Hooker Two Serm. (1614) 10 A poore fisherman..with his cloathes wringing wet.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. i. 377 The wringing-wet Influence (as Houswives call it) of ♂ and ♀.

1847 Illustr. London News 21 Aug. 128/2 Their handkerchiefs are ‘wringing-wet’.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 387 Then I clutch..a wringing wet blanket.

1901 T. J. Alldridge Sherbro xxiii Foot-sore, utterly exhausted, and wringing wet with perspiration.

2. That writhes or twists.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adjective]

wrestinga1529

writhing1556

retorting1588

wringinga1600

wrenching1618

reluctant1667

twirlinga1719

quirling1755

convoluting1818

contortional1918

a1600 T. Deloney Gentle Craft (1627) i. ii. sig. Biij^v The wrathfull Dragon with his long wringing taile.

a. Causing pain, distress, or anguish; racking, distressing.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adjective]

anguishous?c1225

wounding?c1225

asperc1374

derflya1400

rending?c1400

furiousc1405

fretting1413

piercingc1450

anguish1477

piquant1521

anguishing?1566

plaguing1566

asperous?1567

agonizing1570

tormenting1575

wringing1576

cutting1582

tormentous1583

tormentful1596

tormentuous1597

racking1598

torturous1600

lacerating1609

torturing1611

tearinga1616

heart-aching1620

breast-rending1625

crucifying1648

tormentative1654

martyring?a1656

tormentive1655

discruciating1658

cruciatory1660

anguishful1685

brain-racking1708

probing1749

agonized1793

anguished1803

harrowing1810

vulnerary1821

grinding1869

torturesome1889

wrenching1889

tortuous1922

1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 27 Nipping neede & wringing want.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 250 The wringing pains in the bellie.

1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 188 A painfull wringing grief in the body after food.

1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus II. viii One task..which, however wringing to my heart, must be completed.

1891 H. Lynch G. Meredith 88 The wringing sorrows brought about by his own baseness.

b. Characterized by oppression or extortion.

ΘΠ

the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [adjective]

writhinga1529

torcenous1532

bloodsucking1548

racking1576

exacting1583

extorting1598

extortious1607

sharking1608

wringing1620

exactious1630

extortionizing1630

extortionable1632

extortioninga1641

extortionous1644

extortive1646

screwing1647

extracting1654

hirudinous1654

rack-renting1779

extortionate1789

extortionary1805

society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [adjective]

tyrannish1390

oppressinga1475

tyrannica1492

tyranful1533

tyrannicala1538

tyrannous1556

tyranniousc1561

tramplinga1586

suppressing1589

grinding1598

ingrating1599

wringing1620

inquisitory1639

inquisitional1644

oppressive1646

tyrannial1651

grating1653

inquisitorial1796

oppressive1972

1620 T. Peyton Glasse of Time i. 50 That none by wrong oppression might Be crost, by cunning, wringing, wrestling guile.

1814 Ld. Byron Lara ii. viii. 804 Many a wringing despot..Who work'd his wantonness in form of law.

c. Causing straining or stretching (of the fingers).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > [adjective] > of digits > causing

wringing1676

1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument 41 Therefore were they constrain'd to extreme hard, cross, and wringing Stops..upon the Finger-board.

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单词	wringing
释义	wringingn. Etymology: < wring v. + -ing suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwringing. 1. a. The action of the verb, in various senses; the fact of being wrung. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun] throwingOE wringinga1375 twining1398 wrenching1398 wresting1398 writhing?a1400 wrying1566 wreathing1571 convolution1597 twinding1602 contortion1611 distorquement1628 distortion1718 twisting1725 quirling1754 circumgyration1843 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] > expression of pain wringinga1375 quetching1676 pain behaviour1953 the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > [noun] > by pressure or squeezing wringinga1375 the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [noun] > action of wringing (the heart) wringinga1375 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > other manifestations of sorrow > [noun] > wringing of hands hand-wringingc1330 wringinga1375 thrutchingc1540 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] > action of causing painingc1450 wringing1548 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > pinching or pressure pinchinga1413 tension1541 wringing1606 tensity1658 girdle-sensation1885 girdle-pains1897 the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > other injuries mischance1587 wringing1611 moonblow1851 industrial injury1855 beat elbow1905 pole-wound1908 boo-boo1932 neurapraxia1942 neurotmesis1942 owie1967 the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [noun] > action or fact of putting or being out of shape > distortion beshrewinga1425 distortion1581 wryness1591 contortion1611 distorture1613 distortedness1684 wringing1706 twisting1725 cross-winding1815 twistification1835 detortion1853 twinge1860 the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] > motion of vermiculation1652 wringing1718 peristalsis1847 antiperistalsis1859 the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [noun] > strangulation stranglec1386 strangling1398 chokingc1440 worrying1483 strangulation1542 throttling1599 wringing1843 mug1862 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 5452 Þer was siking.., weping & wringinge for wo at here hertes. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. cxii Oile..renneþ þe better and þe clenner oute of þe draffe in the wringinge and pressinge. 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. c iij The peynfull wringing of so vneasie a yok. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares To Rdr. He hath but a slight wringing by the eares. 1606 J. Carpenter Schelomonocham xiv. f. 57 The wringing of the shoo being knowne to him only which weareth it. 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xxx. 33 The wringing of the nose bringeth forth bloud. View more context for this quotation 1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 156 With..wringing of hands, knocking of breasts, tearing of haire. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Distorsion A wresting or wringing several Ways. 1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. 54 In this great Length of the Tube of the Bowels..no Body can encrease or diminish the Contractions or Wringings of the same. 1782 V. Knox Ess. (1819) III. clxiv. 224 That wringing of the hands, beating of the breast. 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. iv. 64 The wringing of turkeys' necks. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House lv. 530 Her broken words, and her wringing of her hands. b. figurative. The action of wresting or taking forcefully; extortion. ΘΠ the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun] extortionc1340 askingc1400 extort power1492 exactiona1513 bribing1533 extort1541 pollage?1542 bloodsucking1548 scaffery1555 eviction1560 wringing1589 wresting1611 screwing1680 squeezing1681 extortinga1711 wringing1730 over-pull1867 Rachmanism1963 Rachmanship1963 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Cij Ready to suffer wrong without wringing of reuenge out of Gods hand. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Dd4 Extortion,..An vnlawfull..wringing of mony or mony worth from any man. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Extorsion,..a violent wringing, or wresting of things from others. c. With adverbs, as out, up. ΘΠ the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun] extortionc1340 askingc1400 extort power1492 exactiona1513 bribing1533 extort1541 pollage?1542 bloodsucking1548 scaffery1555 eviction1560 wringing1589 wresting1611 screwing1680 squeezing1681 extortinga1711 wringing1730 over-pull1867 Rachmanism1963 Rachmanship1963 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 19 The wringing out of grapes to her husband. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum at Extortion An unlawful..wringing out of money..from any person. 1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xi. 343 The miner..terms such points..of contact a nipping-in or wringing-up of the lode. 2. The action of squeezing or pressing water or moisture out of clothes, etc.; †the personal service of doing such. Also in figurative context. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > wringing wringing1560 1560 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 191 To find hym fyre and a chamber with all wessyng wry [n] ginge and one to help hym one with his clothes and of. 1587 Sc. Acts, Jas. VI (1814) III. 508/1 Meit drink clething bedding wesching and wringing. 1626–7 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1905) II. 92 My keepinge with..washinge, wringinge and other necessaryes during my life. 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 16 My heart..in a font..was dipt and di'd, And washt, and wrung: the very wringing yet Enforceth tears. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. ix. 228 Breakfast shall be on the board in the wringing of a dish-clout. 1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 4th Ser. 96 The wringing [of wool]..is..effected thus. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2822/1 The ordinary wringing injures fine apparel. †3. a. A griping or wringing pain, esp. in the intestines. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in stomach or bowels womb achea1398 gnawing1398 torsionc1425 colicc1440 frettingc1440 the wormc1500 wringc1500 griping1526 wresting?1543 wringing?1550 bellyache1552 torment1578 colic passion1586 wind-colic1593 belly-thrawe1595 belly-grinding1597 fret1600 gripe1601 wrenching1607 mulligrubsa1625 bellywarka1652 torminaa1655 efferation1684 stomach-ache1763 gastrodynia1804 guts-ache1818 stony colic1822 wame-ill1829 gastralgia1834 tummy ache1926 ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. L.iiii The rynde of the pyne apple tree..doth..take awaye the wryngyng of the bely. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 235 The gryping paynes and wringings of the bellie. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 445 The torments and wringing of the cholique. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Extorsion,..a violent wringing, or wresting of things from others. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ i. xxxvii. 83 The wringing of the Guts. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. To Verminate,..to have a griping or wringing in the Belly. †b. The action or fact of feeling remorse, apprehension, or mistrust; an instance of this. Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [noun] > remorse pityc1330 agenbite1340 griefa1375 out-thinkinga1382 remorse of conscience (also mind)c1410 remorsea1425 regreta1540 wringing1623 remord1625 resentment1646 heart-searching1647 remordency1658 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > [noun] > action of wresting or extortion wringing1623 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > pricking or murmuring of conscience wormOE prick of conscience?c1225 bitingc1440 compunction?a1475 grudge1483 pouncea1500 grutch1509 pincha1566 remurmuration of conscience1611 twinge1622 wringing1623 twinging1816 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. ii. 27 Doubts, wringing of the Conscience, Feares, and despaires. View more context for this quotation 1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker i. sig. C2^v No wringings in your minde now as you love me. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 296 The weight and wringing that was then at his heart. 1776 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) IV. xvii. 114 He beheld her, in the wringings of penitential desolation. 4. Perversion; = wresting n. 2 ? Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] wrestingc1444 pervertinga1450 corruptiona1513 straining1528 writhing?1532 hacking1539 violence1546 racking1556 wrying1562 wringing1565 detorting1579 wrest1581 detortion1598 wrench1603 torture1605 distorting1610 violencing1612 refraction1614 misacception1629 distortion1650 distorture1709 misacceptation1721 torturing1753 verbicide1826 stretch1849 twisting1890 queeringness1955 1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 127 Hys wordes without wringing or wresting at all, be taken..to importe much lesse. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 279 Wordes in the Gospell, which (by wringyng and wrestyng) you doe accustome to force to your purpose. 1614 D. Dyke Myst. Selfe-deceiuing xvi. 210 Diueres such like wringings of Scripture. 1852 A. Jameson Legends Madonna 325 Without any wringing of the text for an especial purpose. 5. concrete. In plural, that which is wrung out. Also figurative. ΘΠ the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > [noun] > that which is extracted by pressure wringing1867 1867 E. B. Denison Astron. without Math. (ed. 3) 168 That great law..prevents the whole earth and the sea..from flying in pieces like the wringings of a mop. 1886 Browning in Maggs' Catal. Mar. (1897) 48 The ‘quality of lying is not strained’ in this particular case, but droppeth ‘as should the wringings of a felon brain for the sake of a dollar’. Compounds C1. attributive, as †wringing point. Π a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 166 Then was Stigand, the Metropolitan,..fairly deposed, being too stiffe for the times: which was indeed the wringing point. C2. wringing-machine n. a machine for wringing clothes, etc., after washing; a wringer. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > wringing > machine for wringer1799 wringing-machine1833 power wringer1876 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §698 A washing and wringing machine. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 417/1 Wringing-machine Maker. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2022). wringingadj. Etymology: < wring v. + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwringing. 1. †a. Of hands: That undergo wringing, squeezing, or pressing; wrung under distress. Obsolete. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adjective] > undergoing wringinga1225 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > other manifestations of sorrow > [adjective] > wringing of hands wringinga1225 hand-wringing1603 out-wrung1838 a1225 Leg. Kath. 2324 Heo..seh..wepmen & wummen, mid wringinde honden wepinde sare. 1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued ii. sig. B6 Another cryes with wringing handes. 1596 Roman Charity in Roxburghe Ballads VIII. 6 With wringing hands and bitter teares, these words pronounced she. 1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 73 Wringing Hands and Gnashing Teeth thenceforth and for ever. b. quasi-adv. in wringing wet, very wet; so wet that moisture may be wrung out. ΘΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] thorough wetOE drunk1382 drunkenc1420 uliginosec1440 dung wetc1450 drookeda1522 wet through, to the skin1526 sogginga1552 washed1557 washy1566 muck-wet1567 wringing wet1570 drenched1589 dropsy1605 ydrenched1610 sobby1611 dropsieda1616 slocken1643 uliginous1650 dabbling1661 sodded1661 sobbing1664 sobbed1693 flashy1702 saturated1728 saturate1785 livereda1796 sappy1806 laving1812 sodden1820 sopped1822 soppy1823 soaked1829 dropsical1845 soddened1845 soaking wet1847 soggya1852 sogged1860 soaking1864 sopping1866 soaken1898 astream1929 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > enough to be wrung out wringing wet1570 dropping wet1605 dripping wet1835 1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome iv. f. 49^v Maydens..dabbled all with durt, and wringing wette. 1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 367^v/2 To dry their clothes y^t were wringing weat. a1600 R. Hooker Two Serm. (1614) 10 A poore fisherman..with his cloathes wringing wet. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. i. 377 The wringing-wet Influence (as Houswives call it) of ♂ and ♀. 1847 Illustr. London News 21 Aug. 128/2 Their handkerchiefs are ‘wringing-wet’. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 387 Then I clutch..a wringing wet blanket. 1901 T. J. Alldridge Sherbro xxiii Foot-sore, utterly exhausted, and wringing wet with perspiration. 2. That writhes or twists. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adjective] wrestinga1529 writhing1556 retorting1588 wringinga1600 wrenching1618 reluctant1667 twirlinga1719 quirling1755 convoluting1818 contortional1918 a1600 T. Deloney Gentle Craft (1627) i. ii. sig. Biij^v The wrathfull Dragon with his long wringing taile. 3. a. Causing pain, distress, or anguish; racking, distressing. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adjective] anguishous?c1225 wounding?c1225 asperc1374 derflya1400 rending?c1400 furiousc1405 fretting1413 piercingc1450 anguish1477 piquant1521 anguishing?1566 plaguing1566 asperous?1567 agonizing1570 tormenting1575 wringing1576 cutting1582 tormentous1583 tormentful1596 tormentuous1597 racking1598 torturous1600 lacerating1609 torturing1611 tearinga1616 heart-aching1620 breast-rending1625 crucifying1648 tormentative1654 martyring?a1656 tormentive1655 discruciating1658 cruciatory1660 anguishful1685 brain-racking1708 probing1749 agonized1793 anguished1803 harrowing1810 vulnerary1821 grinding1869 torturesome1889 wrenching1889 tortuous1922 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 27 Nipping neede & wringing want. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 250 The wringing pains in the bellie. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 188 A painfull wringing grief in the body after food. 1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus II. viii One task..which, however wringing to my heart, must be completed. 1891 H. Lynch G. Meredith 88 The wringing sorrows brought about by his own baseness. b. Characterized by oppression or extortion. ΘΠ the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [adjective] writhinga1529 torcenous1532 bloodsucking1548 racking1576 exacting1583 extorting1598 extortious1607 sharking1608 wringing1620 exactious1630 extortionizing1630 extortionable1632 extortioninga1641 extortionous1644 extortive1646 screwing1647 extracting1654 hirudinous1654 rack-renting1779 extortionate1789 extortionary1805 society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [adjective] tyrannish1390 oppressinga1475 tyrannica1492 tyranful1533 tyrannicala1538 tyrannous1556 tyranniousc1561 tramplinga1586 suppressing1589 grinding1598 ingrating1599 wringing1620 inquisitory1639 inquisitional1644 oppressive1646 tyrannial1651 grating1653 inquisitorial1796 oppressive1972 1620 T. Peyton Glasse of Time i. 50 That none by wrong oppression might Be crost, by cunning, wringing, wrestling guile. 1814 Ld. Byron Lara ii. viii. 804 Many a wringing despot..Who work'd his wantonness in form of law. c. Causing straining or stretching (of the fingers). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > [adjective] > of digits > causing wringing1676 1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument 41 Therefore were they constrain'd to extreme hard, cross, and wringing Stops..upon the Finger-board. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.a1375adj.a1225
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