WRINGS Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

wrings

verb

present tense third-person singular of wring

as in extorts

to get (as money) by the use of force or threats that bill collector is willing to do anything to wring money out of deadbeats

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as in earns

to get with great difficulty after years of trying to wring a decent profit out of the business, he is finally giving up

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as in pulls

to move by or as if by a forceful rotation I'm so mad I could wring your neck

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as in pries

to draw out by force or with effort willing to use torture if necessary in order to wring the information out of the terrorist

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Recent Examples of wrings Unfortunately, the underwhelming revelations don’t elicit the tears Kore-eda regularly wrings. — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026 The perennial funnyman suffered an immense tragedy earlier this year with the loss of his daughter, Katherine, yet still wrings laughs out of flamboyant director Oliver Putnam on Only Murders in the Building five seasons in. — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026 Barkin, who was dating Levinson at the time of the film’s production, gamely strives to anchor the odd, histrionic film with her performance and wrings real pathos out of Lynn’s brittle and wounded demeanor. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026 Her sometimes slacker, sometimes twee rock takes recurring major sevenths and wrings them for all their existential meaning. — Ethan Beck, Pitchfork, 27 Mar. 2026 There is a premonitory moment, too, in this book that wrings so much drama from so many backdoor meetings. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026 Austen wrings a great deal of humor from Lady Bertram’s dopey languor. — Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026

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Verb

As engine speed rises, centrifugal force squeezes the drive clutch closed and pushes the belt farther outward.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Aug. 2026
Whereas the Scranton method mainly involves molding ultrahot steel in giant forging presses, Repkon added a step in which a fast-spinning machine squeezes and rolls out the metal like clay on a potter’s wheel.

— Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of squeezes

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Capcom’s August preview says earlier, tighter missions eventually feed into larger explorable locations as Musashi earns additional Oni abilities.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Furthermore, the Girls’ 18s singles champion earns a main-draw wild card into the US Open, providing a direct pathway to one of tennis’s biggest stages this fall in New York.

— Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of earns

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The move pulls back on the city’s previous decision to eliminate parking minimums in 2022 to help encourage development.

— Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2026
The funding will help CAEPlus develop BoundaryCool, a system that pulls heat away from graphics processing units (GPUs), central processing units (CPUs), and tensor processing units (TPUs) using active liquid cooling.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of pulls

Verb

There are swooping close encounters with heavenly bodies, Lego blocks in antigravity mode and swarms of Separators, a sort of astro-anthropomorphic version of the tool that pries apart Lego bricks in real life.

— Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
The show’s biggest laugh may come when Testa pries open Costanzo’s mouth and pronounces just how many performances of Norma Galas has left.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025

Definition of pries

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Ali then exacts his revenge, pumping several rounds into Alamo's chest as the antagonistic figure falls for good.

— Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 1 June 2026
Shrinking lake ice exacts its price Depending on how much greenhouse gases warm the planet in the coming years, the average lake could lose up to 10 to 28 days of ice cover by the end of the century, says Sapna Sharma, a global change biologist at York University in Canada.

— Berly McCoy, NPR, 2 Mar. 2026

Definition of exacts

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His torso and thighs grow eye-poppingly muscular beneath their skimpy fur-and-leather togs—a development that does not go unnoticed by a warrior named Red Hair, who plucks the young hunk from his post and tosses him into the prime time of the gladiator pit.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
But the emotional gravity of this offering's deeply personal, melancholic lyrical content plucks an undeniably profound chord that uniquely separates it from the rest of his work.

— Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026

Definition of plucks

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High performers know the difference between a manager who invests in them and one who extracts from them.

— Miriam Groom, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Under a contract with Konza Health, the new system automatically extracts emergency room records covering more than 10,000 diagnostic conditions.

— Mike Stunson, USA Today, 28 July 2026

Definition of extracts

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If New England somehow wrests the divison away from Buffalo, Vrabel gets serious consideration.

— Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Like everything else that works here, Brie’s performance wrests the last scraps of freshness from a mode of filmmaking this movie knows is played out, but doesn’t have the particular strength to reinvent.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 June 2026