wring
Base form
wring
/rɪŋ/
Past simple
wrung
/rʌŋ/
Past participle
wrung
/rʌŋ/
MeaningC2
to twist and squeeze something to get water out of it
to wring your hands with worry
In use
- Imperative · Form 1Wring out the cloth before you wipe the table.
- Negative · Form 1Don’t wring your hands — just tell me what happened.
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday I wrung out my wet socks after the walk.
- Past simple · Form 2Last night Gran wrung the towels and hung them by the fire.
- Passive · Form 3In those days the washing was wrung out by hand.
- Present perfect · Form 3Have you wrung out the mop yet?
Watch out
Wrung keeps the silent w: it sounds like rung from ring. Wringed and wrang are wrong.
Same pattern
A — B — BForms two and three are the same
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