Crossword-Solution: SPRAIN 6 letters, 59 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Sprain v. t. To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden
and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch
injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.
Sprain n. The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by
spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist.

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SPRAIN anagram INSPRA, PARNIS

We have 59 clues for the answer “SPRAIN”

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Pain's apt rhyme 1 answer
Here's a twist 1 answer
Inconvenient twist 1 answer
Injury from twisting 1 answer
Injury often iced 1 answer
Injury you may ice 1 answer
It may need icing 1 answer
It may rankle your ankle 1 answer
It's usually iced 1 answer
Jock's setback 1 answer
Joint injury 1 answer
Joint wrench. 1 answer
Minor ankle injury 1 answer
Muscle twist 1 answer
Graded injury 1 answer
Reason for icing 1 answer
Reason to get some ice 1 answer
Sidelining cause 1 answer
Torn ligament 1 answer
Turn badly? 1 answer
Twist, as a wrist 1 answer
Unexpected twist 1 answer
Unwanted twist 1 answer
Unwelcome twist 1 answer
Wrench a part 1 answer
Wrist injury 1 answer
Wrist injury, maybe 1 answer
painful injury of ligament often in the ankle 1 answer
Injury often resulting from twisting a joint 1 answer
Common ankle injury 1 answer
Certain wrist injury 1 answer
Athlete's mishap 1 answer
Ankle-swelling cause 1 answer
Ankle woe 1 answer
Ankle problem 1 answer
Ankle mishap 1 answer
Ankle malady 1 answer
Ankle injury, perhaps 1 answer
Ankle injury 1 answer
An injury caused by straining a joint 1 answer
Almost dislocate 1 answer
Common sports injury 2 answers
Ligament injury 3 answers
Muscle injury 3 answers
Runner's woe 5 answers
rick 9 answers
A PAINFUL INJURY TO A JOINT CAUSED BY A SUDDEN WRENCHING OF ITS LIGAMENTS 10 answers
BOXER INJURY 10 answers
BUSINESS SETBACK 10 answers
AN AURICLE DEFORMED BY INJURY 10 answers
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with SPRAIN (5)

She had been laid up half the winter from a sprain received while skating, and had had too much time for reflection during those months.
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories Willa Cather 1995
Take a fat sucking mastiff whelp, flay and bowel him, stuff the body full of black and grey snails, roast a reasonable time, and baste with oil of spikenard, saffron, cinnamon, and honey, anoint with the dripping, working it in——” “Yes, Bucklaw; but in the mean while, before the sprain is cured, nay, before the whelp is roasted, you will be caught and hung.
The Bride of Lammermoor Sir Walter Scott 1996
She has a bad sprain; how the deuce she ever managed to hobble on it even two steps is beyond me." "A sprain? Are you sure?" "I think so; it's badly swollen.
Under the Andes Rex Stout 1996
Then in the hour of contest, you will have to delve the ground, it may chance dislocate an arm, sprain an ankle, gulp down abundance of yellow sand, be scourge with the whip—and with all this sometimes lose the victory.
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus Epictetus 1997
The lotion for a bad sprain.’ ‘Ah! yes! Directly.’ He was evidently relieved to turn away, and to take his white face and his wild eyes to a table in a recess among the bottles.
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices Charles Dickens 2015

Quotes with SPRAIN (1)

I got a third-degree ankle sprain practicing long jump. I never fully recovered. That was my first heartbreak. I thought track was going to be something that was going to happen in my life. It never went in the direction I wanted it to, no matter how hard I tried.
Michelle Wolf
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 71 times in crossword archives (1968–2025).