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  • past participle of wring.
  • past tense form of wring.
Definitions

wrung

[ruhng] / rʌŋ /
ADJECTIVE
squeezed out
Synonyms


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We wrung it out pretty hard, just to be sure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

The trumpeters persevere valiantly but, by the end of the day, everyone's wrung out.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

So forget the grandchildren, we are the people over whom so many hands have been wrung over the last 40 years.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026

All of these jornaleros knew each other, maybe not by their real names, but by nicknames, usually wrung from the place they had lived.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026

My mind is thoroughly wrung out, but I can tell Nathan Daldry has gotten a good night’s sleep.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan




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