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adjective

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as in parched

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wrung

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verb

past tense of wring
1
as in squeezed
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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2
as in earned
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 pulled
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 pried
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 Synonyms for wrung
  1. parched
  2. earned
  3. pulled
  4. sere
  5. plucked
  6. sunbaked
  7. dry
  8. arid
Adjective
  • Also infused with inflammation-fighting Lady’s mantle, the product feels refreshingly cooling as it’s applied, rather like a creamsicle for parched skin.
    Jenny Berg, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2024
  • If your skin is already dry, thanks to the cooler weather, using either could make parched skin worse.
    Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 20 Sep. 2024
Definition of parched
Verb
  • The song earned both acts their first top 10 list.
    Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Predecessor Leap was released in July 2022 and has earned 39,000 equivalent album units to date.
    Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of earned
Verb
  • Brady and a few stringers quickly pulled together what Brady named Page Six because that’s the page where the column initially ran.
    Susan Mulcahy, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Michigan’s largest distributor of housing vouchers hasn't pulled a name off its general waitlist in nearly a year.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of pulled
Adjective
  • Playwright-screenwriter Alice Birch has composed a superheated adaptation that’s anything but sere.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Seidensticker pointed out Kawabata’s ties to Japanese poetry: This was prose of a sere, haiku-like delicacy and suggestiveness, with much implied and little specified.
    Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
Definition of sere
Verb
  • Water lily plucked from the Dior garden helps purify the skin of impurities, including heavy metals.
    Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The sounds made by the murmur often resemble those of a string being plucked and can sound twangy or vibrational, as if someone is plucking a violin string.
    Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of plucked
Adjective
  • Eventually, baseball—the sport of sunbaked afternoons, a sport made beautiful and strange by its exposure to the elements—may be unrecognizable.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2024
  • By mid-morning, the sunbaked terrace is flooded with tourists and townspeople drinking palest rosé before lunch service begins in earnest.
    Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2024
Definition of sunbaked
Adjective
  • The three-layer design offers extra protection against spillage, ensuring that all the contents of your toiletry bag stay dry.
    Catherine Garcia, theweek, 12 Nov. 2024
  • An officer investigating the crash noted that the weather was cloudy and the road was dry at the time.
    NWA Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of dry
Adjective
  • Thousands of different types of plants from the world’s arid regions are spread across the landscape.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The arid region had experienced triple-digit temperatures, which officials believe may have been a factor in the cows' deaths.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of arid
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