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- English Word Wretchedness Definition The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery.
- English Word Wretchedness Definition A wretched object; anything despicably.
- English Word Wretchful Definition Wretched.
- English Word Wretchless Definition Reckless; hence, disregarded.
- English Word Wrey Definition See Wray.
- English Word Wrie Definition See Wry.
- English Word Wried Definition of Wry
- English Word Wrig Definition To wriggle.
- English Word Wriggle Definition To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.
- English Word Wriggle Definition To move with short, quick contortions; to move by twisting and squirming; like a worm.
- English Word Wriggle Definition Wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible.
- English Word Wriggled Definition of Wriggle
- English Word Wriggler Definition One who, or that which, wriggles.
- English Word Wriggling Definition of Wriggle
- English Word Wright Definition One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.
- English Word Wrightine Definition A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrh/a. Called also conessine, and neriine.
- English Word Wring Definition To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.
- English Word Wring Definition Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
- English Word Wring Definition To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
- English Word Wring Definition To extract or obtain by twisting and compressing; to squeeze or press (out); hence, to extort; to draw forth by violence, or against resistance or repugnance; -- usually with out or form.
- English Word Wring Definition To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
- English Word Wring Definition To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.
- English Word Wring Definition To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.
- English Word Wring Definition A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.
- English Word Wringbolt Definition A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt.
- English Word Wringed Definition of Wring
- English Word Wringer Definition One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.
- English Word Wringer Definition A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.
- English Word Wringing Definition of Wring
- English Word Wringing Definition a. & n. from Wring, v.