Index of English words, starting with "wr"

(1) - Wright (n.) 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.

(1) - Wring (n.) A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping.
(2) - Wring (v. i.) To writhe; to twist, as with anguish.
(3) - Wring (v. t.) To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast.
(4) - Wring (v. t.) To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance.
(5) - Wring (v. t.) 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.
(6) - Wring (v. t.) To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
(7) - Wring (v. t.) Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
(8) - Wring (v. t.) To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.

(1) - Wringer (n.) A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.
(2) - Wringer (n.) One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.

(1) - Wrinkle (v. i.) To shrink into furrows and ridges.
(2) - Wrinkle (v. t.) Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
(3) - Wrinkle (v. t.) To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
(4) - Wrinkle (n.) A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
(5) - Wrinkle (n.) hence, any roughness; unevenness.
(6) - Wrinkle (n.) A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.
(7) - Wrinkle (n.) A winkle.