Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.
- 2transitive verb
To rend; to tear.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4transitive verb
To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.
- 5intransitive verb
To levy a distress.
- 6verb
legally take something in place of a debt payment
- 7verb
confiscate by distress
- 8verb
levy a distress on
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