WRING FROM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wring from mean? 

• WRING FROM (verb)
  The verb WRING FROM has 1 sense:

1. get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner

  Familiarity information: WRING FROM used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRING FROM (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

extort; wring from

Hypernyms (to "wring from" is one way to...):

obtain (come into possession of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wring from"):

prise; pry (make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

These folk are strange people, and you must hold their love, even as you have it now, for you will get from their kindness what all the pennons in your army could not wring from them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet why should they build and strive, when the first adventurer who passed would set torch to their thatch, and when their own feudal lord would wring from them with blows and curses the last fruits of their toil?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)