distress vs wring

distress

verb
  • To cause strain or anxiety to someone. 

  • To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age. 

  • To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain. 

noun
  • A cause of such discomfort. 

  • The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. 

  • Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. 

  • Serious danger. 

  • A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt. 

  • An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt. 

wring

verb
  • To cause pain or distress to (someone / one's heart, soul, etc.). 

  • To slide two ultraflat surfaces together such that their faces bond. 

  • To bend or strain out of its position. 

  • To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. 

  • To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it. 

  • To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force. 

  • To draw (something from or out of someone); to generate (something) as a response. 

  • To hold (something) tightly and press or twist. 

noun
  • A powerful squeezing or twisting action. 

How often have the words distress and wring occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )