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Significados de wringing en inglés

Extract liquid from fabric by action of twisting or squeezing.

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Examples for "mangling"
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I cringed at Slidell's mangling of the legal term, but said nothing.
Flash and Bones
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They refuse to let mangling and murder put crimps in their spirit.
Golden Lads
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It's an amalgamation, a mangling and a dangling and a tangling thing.
Life
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Eleanor curled her fingers around her spectacles, mangling them out of shape.
The clouds beneath the sun
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There is no reforming power in torture, in bruising and mangling the flesh.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. / Interviews
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Dripping clean and wringing out her hair, Auri headed off through Tenners.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things
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But it was after thoroughly wringing out the hide that the work began.
The Mammoth Hunters
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Webb was wringing out another compress, preparing to change the dressing.
Ride Proud, Rebel!
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After twenty years of wringing out heavily wet togas, she possessed deceptive strength.
The Silver Pigs
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He looked up and saw Joscelyn wringing out her little handkerchief in the pannikin.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
Uso de wringing en inglés
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The mother stood in the middle of the floor wringing her hands.
The Soul of a Child
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Rapp passed the information onto Speyer, who began wringing his hands nervously.
Act of treason
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Others have proposed wringing more utility out of the existing subway network.
Wired
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Mrs. Gildersleeve sat down by the bedside wringing her hands in silence.
What's Bred in the Bone
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After wringing the water from the moist linen, she approached the bed.
The notorious scoundrel
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There has been the usual hand-wringing over the FA Cup this week.
The Irish Times
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But the spirit of the house still wandered about wringing its hands.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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The poor people stood by, wringing their hands and watching the flames.
The Valley of Vision : A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tale...
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I was wringing-wet, and there was a piercing pain in my side.
The Young Forester
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Liv was doing whatever she was asked, and generally wringing her hands.
The whole world: a novel
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I trust to have the opportunity of wringing his neck some day.
The Eustace Diamonds
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The wretched woman sat rocking to and fro-weeping and wringing her hands.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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By the third time we repeated this, I was wringing with sweat.
The Wise Man’s Fear
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Meanwhile, the United States is wringing its hands over what to do.
Wired
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I cried, wringing my hands and handing her the letter to read.
Fifteen Years with the Outcast
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He heard the wringing of her hands, and guessed her beside herself.
The Forest Lovers
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