When the washing machine broke down, I had to wring out the clothes by hand
The word is wring (as in to wring out a wet cloth).
The past tense of "wring" is "wrung."
Wring.
"When washing by hand, you twist the clean clothes to wring out the water." "If you wring out that washcloth on my game, I'm going to wring your neck!" "All the distraught family could do was to wring their hands and wait."
wrung
The word is wring. Wring means to squeeze something to force liquid from it.
Janet got so wet from the rain, she had to wring out her sodden clothes.
When she went to wring out the washing, she realized that her ring was gone. The farmer couldn't find his ax, so he had to wring the chicken's neck and got blood on his school ring.
Wring
Wring.
Wring means to twist something to get the remaining liquid out.
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