wring out

1. 1.

   extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing

   “wring out the washcloth”

   Synonymssqueeze out

   Broaderextract

Questions about wring out

What does wring out mean?

wring out means "extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing".

What is another word for wring out?

Close synonyms include squeeze out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wring out a common word?

wring out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.