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Synonyms for wring
Synonyms for wring: squeeze, wrench and extort. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for wring
Interchangeable with wring, one per sense
Audited under wring's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one wring carries in that sense.
- squeezenoun, in the sense "a twisting squeeze"
- wrenchverb, in the sense "twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name wring as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- extortextort is a verb in the sense "to obtain money from someone through force, threats, or intimidation"
The first group is filed under wring's own senses. The second reaches wring from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
a twisting squeeze
Gave the wet cloth a wring.
The true synonym
squeeze
Same sentence, swapped: Gave the wet cloth a squeeze.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for wring in the sentence quoted.
- whirl
- wobble
- martyr
twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
Wring one's hand.
The true synonym
wrench
Same sentence, swapped: Wrench one's hand.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- rack
- tangle
- twine
Where wring turns up in the game
wring is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where wring is the trap
- imbalancenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is instability, in the sense "a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium", so wring is there to be ruled out.
- impaleverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is spike, in the sense "pierce with a sharp stake or point", with wring sitting one tile away.
Play wring
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wring reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because events is the company wring keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. wring carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.