Sprain

Definition: Sprain

Sprain

Noun

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

Verb

1. Twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days".

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Date "sprain" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Public Administration

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Synonyms: Sprain

Impotence

Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.

Weakness

Render weak; Adjective: weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman; (render powerless); cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son vin.

Declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength; delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain.

Crosswords: Sprain

Mr Kim At ease, before you sprain something. (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart)

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Books

• Managing the Common Ankle Sprain (reference)

• Repetitive Sprain Injuries (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• Brain Sprain (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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One day he received a sprain rather than crush an ant.

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Health

Whiplash�a soft tissue injury to the neck�is also called neck sprain or neck strain. (references)

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Expressions using "sprain": sprain fracture ♦ sprain one's ankle ♦ sprain smb.'s ankle. Additional references.

Albanian

përdredhje (convolution, curl, kink, Rick, squirm, torsion, turn, twist, wrench, wrick), përdredh (curl, intertwist, luxate, screw, turn, twine, warp, wrick, wring), ndrydhje (compression, constriction, dislocation, jaw, Rick, suppression, wrench, wrick), ndrydh (check, clench, constrain, dislocate, jam, stifle, subdue, suppress, turn, vice, wrench, wrick). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لي المفصل, ‏التواء (contortion, offset, rick, strain, warp), ‏إلتوى في الكاحل, ‏إلتوى (bend round, buckle, double, strain, twist), ‏رضة (contusion, strain). (various references)

Bulgarian 

навяхване (twist, wrench), навяхвам (slip, strain, twist, wrench, wrick), изкълчване (dislocation, luxation, wrench), изкълчвам (disjoint, dislocate, luxate, put out, slip, wrench). (various references)

Chinese 

扭伤 (Sprained, Spraining). (various references)

Czech

vyvrtnutí (wrench), vymknutí (dislocation, wrench), vymknout (dislocate, wrench). (various references)

Danish

forstuvning (distortion), forstrækning (drawing). (various references)

Dutch

verstuiking, distorsie (distortion). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچ خوردن (Loop, Wreathe, Wrench, Wry), رگ به رگ کردن یاشدن , رگ برگ شدگی , بدرداوردن . (various references)

Finnish

venähdys (strain). (various references)

French

entorse. (various references)

German

Verstauchung (spraining), verstauchen (to sprain). (various references)

Greek 

στραγγούλισμα (spraining), στραγγουλίζω, στραμπούλιγμα, νευροκαβαλίκεμα (cramp), εξάρθρωση (dislocation, twist), εξαρθρώνω (dislocate), διάστρεμμα (twist). (various references)

Hebrew 

למתוח (kid, pull, spoof, strain, stretch, tauten), לסובב (circuit, revolve, roll, rotate, slue, twiddle, wind), ל� קוע (dislocate, strain, wrench), �"קע�" (dislocation), � קע (cleft, crevice, fissure, strain). (various references)

Hungarian

rándulás (crick, hitch, jerk, strain, twitch, wrick), ficam (abarticulation, luxation, Rick, wrench). (various references)

Italian

distorsione (distortion, strain, twist). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

筋違い (cramp, illogical, intersection), 捻挫 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すじちがい (cramp, illogical, intersection), すじちかい (cramp, illogical, intersection), ね�"ざ. (various references)

Manx

sheeyney (dilation, elongate, extension, give, hand, increase, lengthen, lengthening, marry, pass, produce, production, prolongation, prostrate, prostration, range, rick, spin out, spraining, spread, strain, stretch, stretch out, stretching, tension, uncoil), lheaney (spraining, spread), lheanaghey (beat out, branch out, broadening, dilate, dilation, expand, expansion, extend, extension, flare, flatten, hammer down, widen, widening, yawn, yawn as chasm). (various references)

Pig Latin

ainspray

Portuguese

entorse (wrick). (various references)

Romanian

suci (bend, crook, dislocate, distort, screw, turn, twist, wield, wring), scrântire (dislocation, wrench), scrânti (dislocate, luxate, wrench), rãsuci (contort, convolve, curl, dislocate, entwist, revolve, roll, screw, set, snake, spin, turn, twist, wield, wring), luxare, luxaţie (dislocation, luxation, strain, twist), luxa (dislocate, luxate, splay, strain), entorsã (Crick, twist, wrench). (various references)

Russian 

растяжение сустава, растяжение сухожилия, растяжение (dilation, distension, distention, expansion, extension, pull, strain, tension), дисторсия. (various references)

Scottish

siach (va. sprain or strain a joint), sguch. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uganuti (luxate, twist, wrench, wrick), uganuće (luxation, twist, wrench, wrick), iščašiti (disjoin, disjoint, dislocate, luxate, twist, wrench), iščašenje (dislocation, luxation, twist, wrench). (various references)

Spanish

esguince (dodge, scowl, swerve, twist). (various references)

Swedish

vrickning (dislocation, luxation, twist), vricka (luxate, Rick, scull, twist). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้เคล็�", อาการเคล็�". (various references)

Turkish

burkulma (Rick, strain, twist, wrench, wrick), burkmak (distort, luxate, Rick, strain, turn, twist, wrench, wrick), burkma (twist, wrench). (various references)

Ukrainian

розтягти зв'язки, розтягнення зв'язок. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự bong gân. (various references)

Welsh

ysigo (bruise, crush), ysictod (contusion). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sprain": sprained, spraining, sprains. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sprain" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Isparion, prain, Saperavi, Sarafina, sarazin, Sarrazin, Serjani, sfrain, slrain, spaint, sprank, sprawn. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: airns, naris, nipas, pains, pairs, paris, pians, pinas, pirns, rains, ranis, sarin.

-2 letters: ains, airn, airs, anis, naps, nipa, nips, pain, pair, pans, pars, pian, pias, pina, pins, pirn, rain, rani, raps, rasp, rias, rins, rips, sain, sari, snap, snip, span, spar, spin.

-3 letters: ain, air, ais, ani, ars, asp, ins, nap, nip.

+1 letter: aspirin, harpins, inwraps, paniers, parians, parings, parsing, parsnip, piranas, rapines, rapinis, rasping, soprani, sparing, spirant, sprains.

+2 letters: aspirant, aspiring, aspirins, atropins, cantrips, carpings, cyprians, firepans, graplins, grasping, hairpins, harpings, heparins, naperies, painters, pairings, panfries, panniers, pantries, pargings, parkings, parsnips, parsonic, partings, partisan, pertains, phrasing, pinaster, pingrass, piranhas, poniards, praising, pralines, prankish, pristane, puritans, rampions, ranpikes, rappinis, repaints, scarfpin, scarping, scraping, seraphin, sharping, snappier, spandril, sparging, sparking, sparling, sparring, spearing, spirants, sprained, spraying, springal, syrphian, tranship.