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Significats de wring en anglès

portuguès
extorquir
català
extorsionar

Obtain by coercion or intimidation.

extorsionar
portuguès
deformar
català
desfigurar

Twist and press out of shape.

desfigurar
Sinònims
Examples for "distort"
Examples for "distort"
1
Paul McGinley must wish he was a magician, able to distort reality.
The Irish Times
2
Polls using lists of emotive circumstances tend to distort results, it said.
The Irish Times
3
The University of Ohio discovered that distraction distort how we view reality.
Radio NZ
4
Everyone knows anger can distort judgment, temporarily blinding us to negative consequences.
The Irish Times
5
Sometimes, such an approach can distort the quality of the actual music.
The Irish Times
1
As these bullets strike different targets, they're gonna deform in different ways.
Wired
2
Tight or high-heeled shoes deform the feet and make the gait awkward.
First Book in Physiology and Hygiene
3
Certainly, such temples as these shall erelong cease to deform the landscape.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
4
It took twenty-six years for that blessing to deform into a curse.
Still alice
5
How tendons deform in different hierarchical levels under shear and compression is unknown.
Pubmed
1
The podium, the lights, the focus and expectation contort the audience's perceptions.
The Guardian
2
He would contort your muscles and dislocate your bones like any osteopath.
The Book of Tea
3
I contort my wife's old nursing pillow to support my reclined back.
Wired
4
I saw a grim smile contort Mr. Rochester's lips, and he muttered-
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
5
How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
Leaves of Grass
espanyol
retorcer

Twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish.

Termes relacionats
retorcer

A twisting squeeze.

Ús de wring en anglès
1
This Haslerig family demonstrates that you can wring success out of anything.
In the Land of Jim Crow
2
The Colonel's occasional efforts to wring information out of her yielded nothing.
The street philosopher
3
You could almost wring water out of the air in our tent.
The Life of Me: An Autobiography
4
It outmaneuvers rivals and strikes creative financing deals to wring out value.
Reuters
5
Rovio certainly knows how to wring the most out of a franchise.
The Irish Times
6
He now proceeded to wring the handkerchief in a highly dramatic manner.
Frank Merriwell at Yale; Or, Freshman Against Freshman
7
And it's inevitable that we'll wring our hands and be very concerned.
Wired
8
Too late the weeping relatives wring their hands and moan the remark.
Without Prejudice
9
I make sure to wring every last atom of pleasure from it.
The Guardian
10
Mr. Brown began to wring his hands and cry in great agony.
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
11
Both Darbwin's wife and I wanted to wring their long, thin necks.
Summers at Castle Auburn
12
Next, perhaps, are the sufferings which wring the heart all the while.
In Nesting Time
13
Again the impulse assailed him to wring confession from her by terror.
The Odd Women
14
David Brown removed his hands from hers and started to wring them.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
15
It will wring her heart, and either break it or soften it.
Olive: A Novel
16
Marghaz will wring a confession out of them, I do not doubt.
A Dance with Dragons
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espanyol
retorcer
Wring a través del temps
Wring per variant geogràfica
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