distrain

distrain is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.
2. transitive verb. To rend; to tear.
3. transitive verb. To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement.
4. transitive verb. To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.
5. intransitive verb. To levy a distress.
6. verb. legally take something in place of a debt payment
7. verb. confiscate by distress
8. verb. levy a distress on

Common word forms

distrains, distrained, distrainer, distraining, distrainable, distrainment

Words from these letters

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