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To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation
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to sprain one's ankle
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To burst forth.
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(of beards) To grow.
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To cause to burst forth.
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To make wet, to moisten.
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(usually with "to" or "up") To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
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The documentary made tears spring to their eyes.
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(now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
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To go off.
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To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
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(usually perfective) To crack.
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To have something crack.
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To cause to crack.
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To surprise by sudden or deft action.
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(of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
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They sprung an arch over the lintel.
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(of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
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The arches spring from the front posts.
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To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
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To raise a vessel's sheer.
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(cobblery) To raise a last's toe.
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To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
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To raise an offered price.
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To act as a spring: to strongly rebound.
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To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
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To provide spring or elasticity
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To inspire, to motivate.
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To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
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A piece of timber sometimes springs in seasoning.
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(now rare) To reach maturity, to be fully grown.
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(chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
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(of rattles) To sound, to play.
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To spend the springtime somewhere
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To hold tightly, to clasp.
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To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
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Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
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To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
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The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
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To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
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To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
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Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
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To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
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to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
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To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
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To percolate; to be filtered.
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water straining through a sandy soil
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To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
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To urge with importunity; to press.
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to strain a petition or invitation
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Hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
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To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.
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A man straineth, liveth, then dieth.
Examples of sprang in a Sentence
All the birds sprang up joyfully.
Two images sprang from the pages.
He sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall.
It sprang to life at her touch with a ping that made her heart leap.
Traci sprang up and snatched her purse.
Lana sprang up from her corner of the couch and flung her arms around Elise.
Trees of all kinds sprang from the earth in the strangest positions.
The cry awoke the farmers; they sprang from their beds and looked out.
On the other side of the rocks, water sprang from the ground and spilled off a ledge into a large blue pool.
Kiki sprang up from his seat in the corner.
But out of the copies of Norfolk deeds and records collected for Thomas, earl of Arundel, in the early part of the 17th century, it seems clear enough that he sprang from a Norfolk family, several of whose members held lands at Wiggenhall near Lynn.
He released her, and she sprang up, backing away from him.
Rhyn focused the little bit of magic he had remaining on the wood. Fire sprang up. With it, Rhyn felt a stitch of the seam binding his power snap.
Pseudo-Joachimite treatises sprang up on every hand, and, finally, in 1254, there appeared in Paris the Liber introductorius ad Evangelium aeternum, the work of a Spiritual Franciscan, Gherardo da Borgo San Donnino.
The children and the Wizard rushed across the moving rock and sprang into the passage beyond, landing safely though a little out of breath.
Then he sprang up quickly and seized it by the tail.
Such was the seedground in which what is specifically known as German mysticism sprang up.
In the early 1800s, fertilizer companies sprang up using bone meal as the principle agent.
The girls sprang aside.
The name is generally applied not only to the order of Ku Klux Klan, but to other similar societies that existed at the same time, such as the Knights of the White Camelia, a larger order than the Klan; the White Brotherhood; the White League; Pale Faces; Constitutional Union Guards; Black Cavalry; White Rose; The '76 Association; and hundreds of smaller societies that sprang up in the South after the Civil War.
He was certainly so far connected with sheep that he and sheep and the Kshatriya caste sprang from the breast and arms of Prajapati, a kind of creative being.
The tortoise from which all things sprang, in a myth of the Satapatha-Brahmana, reminds us of the Iroquois turtle.
The lad sprang up alarmed.
Directly the French troops had passed, Republican bands sprang up, and the non-combatant Mexicans, to save themselves, could only profess neutrality.
From them sprang a code of ecclesiastical laws and a whole judicial organization.
She tried to pass Anna Mikhaylovna, but the latter sprang so as to bar her path.
Philip, his eldest son, ascended the French throne in 1328, and from him sprang the royal house of Valois.
In the west city communities rapidly sprang up under direct Roman influence.
The race of Somerled continued to rule the islands, and from a younger son of the same potentate sprang the lords of Lorne, who took the patronymic of Macdougall.
Its rigid rule was adopted by a vast number of the old Benedictine abbeys, who placed themselves in affiliation to the mother society, while new foundations sprang up in large numbers, all owing allegiance to the "archabbot," established at Cluny.
Tertullian in fact created Christian Latin literature; one might almost say that that literature sprang from him full-grown, alike in form and substance, as Athena from the head of Zeus.
A formidable agitation sprang up in France, which only served to make the king more obstinate.
Arnulf's real authority did not extend far beyond the confines of Bavaria, and he contented himself with a nominal recognition of his supremacy by the kings who sprang up in various parts of the Empire.
To meet these new responsibilities a branch Missionary Society had been formed in Leeds in October 1813, and others soon sprang up in various parts of the country.
These sprang from his participation in the War of the Barons; but to this vtu., 1484= the pope was absolutely compelled.
One scandal followed hard on the other, and opposition naturally sprang up. Unfortunately, Savonarola, the head of that opposition, transgressed all bounds in his wellmeant zeal.
All three were of humble extraction, and sprang from the people in the full sense of the phrase.
Mesopotamia fell to one of his sons, Saif ad-Din, and branches sprang up at Sinjar and Jezira.
He kept to the far north of Mesopotamia to avoid his brother Ferhan; but finally half-sedentary tribes on the Khabur and the Belikh became tributary to him, and a more or less active warfare sprang up between the brothers, which ended in a partition of Mesopotamia.
The two men were mutually attracted, and a warm affection sprang up betweem them.
Its historical ancestors were the counts of Kafernburg, from whom the counts of Schwarzburg sprang about the beginning of the 13th century.
Not only did pupils flock to Tosa from many quarters, attracted alike by the novelty of Itagaki's doctrines, by his eloquence and by his transparent sincerity, but also similar schools sprang up among the former vassals of other fiefs, who saw themselves excluded from the government.
Out of his endeavours sprang a new organization, the China Inland ' For complete directory see Statistical Atlas of Foreign Missions (1910).
During the Reformation period there sprang up, to meet the needs of the time, a new kind of religious order, called Regular Clerks.
A custom also sprang up, and was common at the time of the Commutation Acts, for a tithe-owner to accept a fixed sum of money or fixed quantity of the goods tithable in place of the actual tithes, known as a modus decimandi, whether in respect of a whole parish or only of particular lands within it; and this could be sued for in the ecclesiastical courts.
They sprang from a double cause.
Under his rule the city at once sprang to the first place in Sicily, and he was the first Siceliot ruler who held dominion over two Greek cities, Acragas and Himera.
On the death of Agathocles tyrants sprang up in various cities.
Other newspapers were afterwards established upon the same principles; anti-slavery societies, founded upon the doctrine of immediate emancipation, sprang up on every hand; the agitation was carried into political parties, into the press, and into legislative and ecclesiastical assemblies; until in 1861 the Southern states, taking alarm from the election of a president known to be at heart opposed to slavery though pledged to enforce all the constitutional safeguards of the system, seceded from the Union and set up a separate government.
The Abolitionists of the United States were a united body until 1839-1840, when divisions sprang up among them.