wring out
English
Verb
wring out (third-person singular simple present wrings out, present participle wringing out, simple past and past participle wrung out) (transitive)
- To squeeze (a wet material), either by twisting with one's hands, or by passing it through a wringer, to remove the water.
- To force someone to give (something), usually truth, or money.
- I couldn't help it. I had to tell him. He wrung it out of me.
- They wrung an extra $500 out of us for the transfer fees.
- (aviation) To push (an aircraft) to its performance limits; to push the envelope.
- 1951, Popular Science, March issue, page 46
- Another difficulty has been that autopilots are designed for ordinary flying. They can't "wring out" a plane, being limited to about 45° in bank and pitch. Aerobatics are an impossibility.
- 1983, Flying Magazine, June issue, page 94
- Others listening to the conversation felt the same as I did, especially after having seen a local pilot really "wring" out the airplane at their local air show two weeks earlier.
- 2012, When I Get To Heaven, by Howard Brown, page 39
- I had no conception of what it meant to ”wring out" an airplane until I rode with that magnificent man, and I can't remember his name. After he had scorched the paint off that AT-6, he very quietly said, ”Okay, take her back to the field."
- 1951, Popular Science, March issue, page 46
Derived terms
- wring out one's sock
Translations
to remove liquid by squeezing
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to force to give something
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