distrain
Distrain is a 8 letter word which starts with the letter D and ends with the letter N for which we found 5 definitions.
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| (v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress torment or afflict. |
| (v. t.) To rend; to tear. |
| (v. t.) To seize as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent the reparation of an injury done etc.; to take by distress; as to distrain goods for rent or of an amercement. |
| (v. t.) To subject to distress; to coerce; as to distrain a person by his goods and chattels. |
| (v. i.) To levy a distress. |
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