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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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An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
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The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life, variously reckoned as
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Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.
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The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
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Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
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Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
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An erection of the penis.
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A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or a plank or seam.
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Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly
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The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
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Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly
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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 springs in a Sentence
There are many sulphur and iron springs in the vicinity.
There are hot springs near the town.
He wants the water from the Springs, which he claims is magic.
Springs which would equalize the discharge of rivers by continuing to pour water into their beds after the rainy season has passed seem entirely absent in the interior.
Her advisor did not believe what the guards believed, that only a member of her clan could make the Springs heal people.
If the lowly guards knew a member of her clan must be on the throne for the Springs to heal, who else did?
I give water from the Springs to every king my father wronged.
During the two weeks there was a Mexican dinner at the Catholic church, a couple of movies, three evenings at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool and even a day of downhill skiing at Telluride.
Dean figured it hadn't rained in Pagosa Springs in months but she began to spread out her sleeping bag in the narrow space next to him, nudging him closer to the side with her hip.
As long as one from her clan is the Warlord, the Springs will continue to heal.
He looked in the direction of the Springs, unable to see them but calmed to know they were there.
There are hot mineral springs in the town.
Take it to the Springs.
Cannstatt, which was incorporated with Stuttgart in 1903, attracts numerous visitors owing to its beautiful situation on the Neckar and its saline and chalybeate springs.
Along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, light blue Viennese caleche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn by six horses at a smart trot.
Behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, and the tramp of horses' hoofs were heard.
As soon as she got here, she and Howie had to go private and talk things over and test the bed springs.
He maneuvered his way through the forest until he found the place near the warm springs at the center of the stream, where they'd gone their first night together.
I must keep our alliances strong by delivering the water from the Springs!
The bladder of water from the Springs was lost in the fight with Memon's men.
Even our spy does not know the source of magic that makes the Springs flow pure with life.
His gaze traveled the length of the glowing forest to the walls and settled in the direction of the magic Springs.
Taran flinched, hands clenching and unclenching as he tried not to reach out to her, to grab her and run to the Springs.
Four steps in, the stone bottom dropped out from under him, and he all but dropped her into the depths of the Springs.
They were slow to respond, and he sloshed free, wrestling the barrel to the Springs.
He paused once to give a long look over his shoulder at the still body propped in the Springs.
I go to the Springs.
The Springs healed her wounds, but she did not awaken from death.
There are mines of silver, copper, lignite and salt, and many hot springs, including some of great repute medicinally.
There are mineral springs, mostly medicinal waters, in Greenbrier, Summers, Webster, Ohio and Preston counties.
Salt springs exist in the neighbourhood, and to the south there are two small lakes, Zonar and Rincon, which abound in fish.
There are only two springs of fresh water, and these are confined to one valley.
The streets are lined with trees, and water from the neighbouring sulphur springs flows along them in open channels.
It is an attractively built city, and has good mineral springs.
Below Mosul, for some distance, occur sulphurous and bituminous springs.
Strutt has suggested that helium in hot springs may be derived from the disintegration of common rocks at great depths.
The mineral springs of France are numerous, of varied character and much frequented.
From this point the explorer worked in a south-westerly direction to Queen Victoria Springs, where he struck the track of Giles's expedition of 1875.
From the springs the journey was continued along the same meridian to the Fitzroy river.
Numerous warm springs are scattered about this volcanic region.
There are several mineral springs in the county, some of them chalybeate, others sulphurous.
Marienbad is among the youngest of the Bohemian wateringplaces, although its springs were known from of old.
They appear in a document dating from 1341, where they are called "the Auschowitzer springs belonging to the abbey of Tepl;" but it was only through the efforts of Dr Josef Nehr, the doctor of the abbey, who from 1779 until his death in 1820 worked hard to demonstrate the curative properties of the springs, that the waters began to be used for medicinal purposes.
It contains many mountains volcanic in origin (Plomb du Cantal, Puy de Dome, Mont Dore), fertile valleys such as that of Limagne, vast pasturelands, and numerous medicinal springs.
Manchester is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway and by electric line connecting with Hartford, Rockville and Stafford Springs.
Knit goods are manufactured, but the importance of the place is due to its sulphur springs, the waters of which are used for the treatment of skin diseases, gout, rheumatism, etc., and to the tonic air and fine scenery.
When portable cranes are fitted with springs and axle-boxes, drawgear and buffers, so that they can be coupled to an ordinary railway train, they are called " breakdown " or " wrecking " cranes.
The armature of the electromagnet is normally attracted by the effect of the permanent magnet, but it is furnished with two antagonistic springs tending to throw it upwards.
These springs are so adjusted that they are not quite able to release the armature.
These coils are drawn down, by the magnetic action of the field on the currents in the coils, into the annular spaces, against the pull of the springs, more or less strongly, according to the strengths of the two line currents.