sprang
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Definitions ofsprang
- To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation
Example: "to sprain one's ankle"
- To burst forth.
- (of beards) To grow.
- To cause to burst forth.
- To make wet, to moisten.
- (usually with "to" or "up") To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
Example: "The documentary made tears spring to their eyes."
- (now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To go off.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- (usually perfective) To crack.
- To have something crack.
- To cause to crack.
- To surprise by sudden or deft action.
- (of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
Example: "They sprung an arch over the lintel."
- (of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
Example: "The arches spring from the front posts."
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To raise a vessel's sheer.
- (cobblery) To raise a last's toe.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To raise an offered price.
- To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To provide spring or elasticity
- To inspire, to motivate.
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
Example: "A piece of timber sometimes springs in seasoning."
- (now rare) To reach maturity, to be fully grown.
- (chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- (of rattles) To sound, to play.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To hold tightly, to clasp.
- To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
Example: "Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues."
- To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
Example: "The gale strained the timbers of the ship."
- To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
Example: "Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker."
- To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
Example: "to strain the law in order to convict an accused person"
- To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
- To percolate; to be filtered.
Example: "water straining through a sandy soil"
- To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- To urge with importunity; to press.
Example: "to strain a petition or invitation"
- Hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.
Example: "A man straineth, liveth, then dieth."
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