Definitions for distrains
  • Distrain (v. t.) - To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.
  • Distrain (v. t.) - To rend; to tear.
  • Distrain (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.
  • Distrain (v. t.) - To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.
  • Distrain (v. i.) - To levy a distress.
  • Distrainable (a.) - Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
  • Distrained (imp. & p. p.) - of Distrain
  • Distrainer (n.) - Same as Distrainor.
  • Distrainers - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Distraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) - of Distrain
  • Distrainment - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Distrainments - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Distrains - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
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