Extract liquid from fabric by action of twisting or squeezing.
Synonyms
Examples for "mangling"
Examples for "mangling"
1
I cringed at Slidell's mangling of the legal term, but said nothing.
2
They refuse to let mangling and murder put crimps in their spirit.
3
It's an amalgamation, a mangling and a dangling and a tangling thing.
4
Eleanor curled her fingers around her spectacles, mangling them out of shape.
5
There is no reforming power in torture, in bruising and mangling the flesh.
1
Dripping clean and wringing out her hair, Auri headed off through Tenners.
2
But it was after thoroughly wringing out the hide that the work began.
3
Webb was wringing out another compress, preparing to change the dressing.
4
After twenty years of wringing out heavily wet togas, she possessed deceptive strength.
5
He looked up and saw Joscelyn wringing out her little handkerchief in the pannikin.
1
The mother stood in the middle of the floor wringing her hands.
2
Rapp passed the information onto Speyer, who began wringing his hands nervously.
3
Others have proposed wringing more utility out of the existing subway network.
4
Mrs. Gildersleeve sat down by the bedside wringing her hands in silence.
5
After wringing the water from the moist linen, she approached the bed.
6
There has been the usual hand-wringing over the FA Cup this week.
7
But the spirit of the house still wandered about wringing its hands.
8
The poor people stood by, wringing their hands and watching the flames.
9
I was wringing-wet, and there was a piercing pain in my side.
10
Liv was doing whatever she was asked, and generally wringing her hands.
11
I trust to have the opportunity of wringing his neck some day.
12
The wretched woman sat rocking to and fro-weeping and wringing her hands.
13
By the third time we repeated this, I was wringing with sweat.
14
Meanwhile, the United States is wringing its hands over what to do.
15
I cried, wringing my hands and handing her the letter to read.
16
He heard the wringing of her hands, and guessed her beside herself.
