Crossword clues for sprain
sprain
- Damage when river floods country
- Twist right ankle initially during cycle ride
- Runner's woe
- Ankle mishap
- Unexpected twist
- Ankle woe
- Unwanted twist
- Minor ankle injury
- Joint injury
- Common sports injury
- Certain wrist injury
- Athlete's mishap
- Wrist or ankle injury
- Wrench a part
- Painful twist
- Pain's apt rhyme
- Ligament woe
- Injury you may ice
- Injury often iced
- Injure a joint by twisting its ligaments
- Inconvenient twist
- Ankle-swelling cause
- Turn badly?
- Wrist injury, maybe
- Unwelcome twist
- Here's a twist
- Reason to get some ice
- Sidelining cause
- Common ankle injury
- Reason for icing
- Almost dislocate
- A painful injury to a joint caused by a sudden wrenching of its ligaments
- Muscle twist
- Twist, as a wrist
- Torn ligament
- Ankle injury, perhaps
- European country imprisons king? That's a wrench
- Wrenching of a joint
- King entering the country gets an injury
- Sign of injury from run in country
- Resistance in European nation is a joint problem
- Painfully rips an ankle liable to this injury
- Injury from run in European country
- Injury from twisting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sprain \Sprain\ (spr[=a]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sprained (spr[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Spraining.] [OF. espreindreto press, to force out, F. ['e]preindre, fr. L. exprimere. See Express, v. t., and cf. Spraints.] 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.
Sprain \Sprain\, n. The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist.
Sprain fracture (Med.), the separation of a tendon from its point of insertion, with the detachment of a shell of bone to which the tendon is attached.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, of uncertain origin. The verb is attested from 1620s. A connection has been suggested to Middle French espraindre "to press out," from Latin exprimere [Klein, Century Dictionary], but the sense evolution is difficult. Related: Sprained; spraining.\n
Wiktionary
n. The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist. vb. 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.
WordNet
n. a painful injury to a joint caused by a sudden wrenching of its ligaments
v. 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" [syn: twist, wrench, turn, wrick, rick]
Wikipedia
A sprain, also known as a torn ligament, is damage to one or more ligaments in a joint, often caused by trauma or the joint being taken beyond its functional range of motion. The severity of sprain ranges from a minor injury which resolves in a few days to a major rupture of one or more ligaments requiring surgical fixation and a period of immobilisation. Sprains can occur in any joint but are most common in the ankle and wrist.
Usage examples of "sprain".
I have been practising surgery in this place for twenty years, and in a very poor way, for I had nothing to do, except a few cases of bleeding, of cupping, and occasionally some slight excoriation to dress or a sprained ankle to put to rights.
We ran to help her, but she said she had sprained her ankle, and limped into the house on the arm of one of the gentlemen.
Fastening my lips on hers, I felt with delight that our transports were mutual, and I blessed the sprain that had brought me such bliss.
As I was walking with him, I jumped down from one of the bastions, and feigned to sprain my ankle.
Huggins and Muggins from Chick Lane, And Clutterbuck, who got a sprain Before the plug was found.
Then he limped to that hut vacated by Weamish, and here he passed a wakeful night, by reason of sprains, bruises, and contusions.
For all wounds, bruises, sprains, bee-stings, insect and snake-bites, frost-bites, chilblains, caked breast, swollen glands, rheumatism, and, in short, for any and all ailments, whether afflicting man or beast, requiring a direct external application, either to allay inflammation or soothe pain, the Extract of Smart-weed cannot be excelled.
Pike swore, sprawling onto the hard root, bonking his knee and spraining his left wrist in the process.
El Sangre, having sprained his bank account with an attempt to buy the stallion from Terry the day before.
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It looked like it was only a sprain, but it was a bad sprain and they really needed to unass the DZ.
Crab Apple, armed with thorns, grows in our fields and hedgerows, furnishing verjuice, which is rich in tannin, and a most useful application for old sprains.
CHAPTER 32 MONDAY, 13 MAY 1204 GREENWICH MEAN TIME bohai haixia strait USS seawolf 2004 beijing time Lieutenant Tim Turner was able to grab a rung of the ladder on the way down, preventing himself from falling the distance down to the deck below, but breaking his fall sprained an ankle and dislocated his shoulder.
Rosamond and the party at the fish pool, when the sub-prior showed us a fine patch of the Danewort growing near the monastery, which he told us indicated that Pendyke was once a Danish settlement, and that Danes had been massacred there in the time of the Saxon king Ethelred, and hence sprang up this bloodwort, now so famed for sprains and bruises.
After landing, Hanif was sure that his sprained ankle must now surely be broken.