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Sprain

noun

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

verb

(past & past part. sprained; pres. part. spraining)

Twist suddenly so as to sprain. Synonyms: rick, turn, twist, wrench, wrick. "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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"Sprain" Quotes from Famous Books

... said pleasantly, "I see you're up. How is the sprain? Better? Would you like me to ...

— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill

... box-seat with him, and fell under him, catching a bad sprain of the left wrist, on which I came down, which disables that hand for a few days—nothing broken and no great harm done—only a few liberal rents and trifling bruises. But I should judge that our heads lay about three feet from the side of the road, which was a precipice of ...

— Glances at Europe - In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, - Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. • Horace Greeley

... Immortality so soon brought to shame! Alack! I have had the gout! would fain have persuaded myself that it was a sprain: and, then, that it was only the gout come to look for Mr. Chute at Strawberry Hill: but none of my evasions will do! I was, certainly, lame for two days; and though I repelled it—first, by getting wet-shod, and then by spirits of camphor; and though I have since tamed it more rationally by ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole

... of an egg into a saucer; keep stirring it with a piece of alum about the size of a walnut, until it becomes a thick jelly; apply a portion of it on a piece of lint or tow large enough to cover the sprain, changing it for a fresh one as often as it feels warm or dry. The limb should be kept in a horizontal position by placing it on ...

— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... which pacified me, like, at the minute. So I goes up to see whether he was killed; but he was not a whit the worse for his tumble. So I should ha' fell into a passion with him then, to be sure, about my corn; but his horse had got such a terrible sprain, I couldn't say anything to him; for I was a- pitying the poor animal. As fine a hunter as ever you saw! I am sartain sure he could never ...

— The Parent's Assistant • Maria Edgeworth

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