How dare men thus wring the Scriptures?
Whitgift.
4. 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.
Your overkindness doth wring tears from me.
Shak.
He rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and
wringed the dew out of the fleece.
Judg. vi. 38.
5. To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce
compliance.
To wring the widow from her 'customed right.
Shak.
The merchant adventures have been often wronged and wringed to the
quick.
Hayward.