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Sprain

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A painful wrenching or laceration of the ligaments of a joint.

n. The condition resulting from a sprain.

v. To cause a sprain to (a joint or ligament).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist.

v. To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation.

n. The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To press; push.

To overstrain, as the muscles or ligaments of a joint so as to injure them, but without luxation or dislocation.

n. A violent straining or wrenching of the soft parts surrounding a joint, without dislocation.

n. The injury caused by spraining; a sprained joint.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. twist suddenly so as to sprain

n. a painful injury to a joint caused by a sudden wrenching of its ligaments

Word Usage

"Hollins, who has missed the past week with a mild ankle sprain, is averaging 12.2 points and 10.4 rebounds for Fort Worth. ..."

Verb Form

sprained spraining sprains

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

injure wound pull twist wrench

Form

sprained spraining

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

strain overstrain wrench rick

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Alane Aquitaine Ayn Bahrain Biscayne

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

contusion dislocations concussion bruise abrasion