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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 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.
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