verb
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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
verb
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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
noun
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The action of the verb to spring.
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A set of springs in a vehicle, etc.
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The spring of an arch: the lowest part of an arch on both sides.
adjective
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That springs or spring.
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(characterizing the power of attorney) That takes effect only after the incapacity of the grantor or some other definite future act or circumstance.
verb
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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 springing in a Sentence
How come Parkside is springing for this trip?
It was past dusk, and bonfires were springing up down the beach.
What makes this sand foliage remarkable is its springing into existence thus suddenly.
Within the grounds, which comprise nearly 1500 acres, is the mausoleum erected by the 10th duke, a structure resembling in general design that of the emperor Hadrian at Rome, being a circular building springing from a square basement, and enclosing a decorated octagonal chapel, the door of which is a copy in bronze of Ghiberti's gates at Florence.
Are there any trendy bars / retaurants springing up?
A whole series of sensible and logical considerations showing it to be essential for him to go to Petersburg, and even to re-enter the service, kept springing up in his mind.
Each has a small calyx in the form of a shallow rim, sometimes five-lobed or toothed; five petals, which cohere by their tips and form a cap or hood, which is pushed off when the stamens are ripe; and five free stamens, placed opposite the petals and springing from a fleshy ring or disk surrounding the ovary; each bears a twocelled anther.
It is exceedingly quick in its movements, but seizes its prey by waiting in ambush or stealthily approaching to within springing distance, when it suddenly rushes upon it and tears it to ground with its The Leopard (Felis pardus).
The function of Naturphilosophie is to exhibit the ideal as springing from the real, not to deduce the real from the ideal.
Alexander Duff, a Scottish Presbyterian, had begun his great educational work in Calcutta, and Bible tract and book societies were springing up everywhere.
The removal of slums and the regulation of the older parts of the town, in connexion with the construction of the two new bridges across the Danube and of the railway termini, went hand-in-hand with the extension of the town, new quarters springing up on both banks of the Danube.
In the epics considerable merit is attached to a life of seclusion and ascetic practices by means of which man is considered capable of acquiring supernatural powers equal or even superior to those of the gods - a notion perhaps not unnaturally springing from the pantheistic conception.
The Particular Baptists were Calvinist, springing as they did from the Independents.
The plants have a large rosette of thick fleshy leaves generally ending in a sharp point and with a spiny margin; the stout stem is usually short, the leaves apparently springing from the root.
The Scots confession, though of course drawn up independently, is in substantial accord with the others then springing up in the countries of the Reformation, but is Calvinist rather than Lutheran.
A new race of politicians was springing up. Since 1719, when the influence of the few great territorial families had been merged in a multitude of needy gentlemen, the first estate had become the nursery and afterwards the stronghold of an opposition at once noble and democratic which found its natural leaders in such men as Count Carl Gyllenborg and Count Carl Gustaf Tessin.
The most marked feature of the tree is its long tufted foliage - the leaves, of a bright green tint, springing from long white sheaths, being often a foot in length.
In the section Asiphonacea the colonies are upright and branched, springing from membranous or ramifying stolons.
His deep chestnut head and throat are diversified on either side by a line of buff, which, springing from the gape, runs upward to the eye, in front of which it forms a fork, one prong passing backward above and the other below, enclosing a dark glossy-green patch, and both losing themselves in the elongated feathers of the hind-head and nape.
The decisions of the law were executed by the persons concerned, supported by a highly organized and disciplined public opinion springing from honour and interest and inherent in the solidarity of the clan.
A generation of copious chroniclers was, moreover, springing up, and among them were Florence of Worcester, Henry of Huntingdon, Simeon of Durham and William of Malmesbury.
Springing from the natural suggestions of self-defence against the march of a dangerous rivalry, it had the sanction of all British statesmanship for generations, backed by the consenting instinct of the people.
The overlapping bracts afforded protection to the sporangia, which were borne on sporangiophores springing from the upper surface of the coherent bracts near their origin from the axis; two sporangiophores usually arose from each bract, and sometimes adhered to its upper surface for some distance.
The sporangia in both genera are associated in sori enclosed by indusia springing from the base of the receptacle.
Both before and after the election the United Irish League steadily advanced, fresh branches continually springing up.
Diagrammatic longitudinal section of cone, showing the axis (ax) bearing the bracts (br) with peltate sporangiophores (sp) springing from their axils; sm, sporangia.
That the pure intellectual notions should be defended as springing from the nature of intellect is not out of harmony with the statement of the Treiume eines Geistersehers, for there the pure notions were allowed to exist, but were not held to have validity for actual things except on grounds of experience.
When I was twelve I knew a girl with cream skin and white blond hair springing from a smooth forehead.
And see his good deeds springing from the wound, to sow the world with life immortal!
Large enough to have been part of the springing of a defensive timber rampart across the entrance of the gate!
Now we have heather plants springing up and a diverse grassland sward.
This trap is capable of slow dropping pigeons to fast springing teal.
The front bogie and rear truck have vertical play, and the rear driver also has vertical springing.
The whole account gives a graphic description of the inner working of one among the many new oracles that were springing up at this"period.
The typical bas relief, which is found in great abundance in the museums of Europe, invariably represents Mithras, under the form of a youth with conical cap and flying drapery, slaying the sacred bull, the scorpion attacking the genitals of the animal, the serpent drinking its blood, the dog springing towards the wound in its side, and frequently, in addition, the Sun-god, his messenger the raven, a fig-tree, a lion, a ewer, and torch-bearers.
Yet, although, as Andral and other French physicians proved, it was extravagant to say that all fevers take their origin from some local inflammation, it was true and most useful to insist, as Broussais vehemently insisted, that "fever" is no substance, but a generalization drawn from symptoms common to many and various diseases springing from many various and often local causes; from causes agreeing perhaps only in the factor of elevation of the temperature of the body.
In apospory the converse phenomenon is seen, the gametophyte springing vegetatively from the sporangium, receptacle of the sorus, or leaf-margin of the fern-plant.
Large enough to have been part of the springing of a defensive timber rampart across the entrance of the gate !
A " Springing " Power of Attorney remains in effect until the Principal 's death, or until revoked by a court.
Contemporary music schools and academies are springing up around the country, overwhelmed by pupils eager to learn the rudiments of pop music.
They commonly take the form of a truncated cone, the broad end springing from the muffle Figure 4a.
And we begin to see a new way, a resurrection life springing up in the most unexpected of places.
It bears its fine trusses, 3 inches or more across, on short branches springing from the whole length of the previous years growth, thus forming fine sprays of pure white blossom.
This native of our shores, and of the tops of the Scottish mountains, is very pretty, with its flowers of soft lilac or white springing from cushions of grass-like leaves; but the deep rosy form, rarely seen wild, best deserves cultivation.
In light of the pervasive problem, campaigns are springing up on several industry-related fronts to change the current philosophy that super-thin and tall is the only acceptable standard of beauty.
There are several reasons to consider springing for a pair of bendable reading glasses, including the mitigating the potential for damage from eyeglasses left in seats, children who are mesmerized by eyewear, and regular wear.
Titanium is the strongest metal, and some, like the Flexon line, are even designed to be very flexible, springing back into place if something does bump them.
While there's something to be said for spontaneity, suddenly springing a weekend away on someone may not be the best way to go.
Second hand resell stores are springing up all over the country and have steadily gained in popularity in recent years.
Springing from a fertile pool of consumer electronic expertise, Zenith clock radios bring reliable timekeeping and sterling sound to the homes of America.