outwring
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outwring (third-person singular simple present outwrings, present participle outwringing, simple past and past participle outwrung)
- (poetic, transitive) To wring out.
- 1839, Joseph Philip Robson, Poetic Gatherings: or, Stray Leaves from my portfolio, page 54:
- The husband's tears are big and hot, / E'en from his heart outwrung; / The pearls of sorrow on his cheek / In anguish'd rays are strung