Crossword-Solution: DISTRAIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “DISTRAIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Legally seize property | 1 answer |
| confiscate by distress | 1 answer |
| legally take something in place of a debt payment | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DISTRAIN (5)
But if what I say is true--and he, won over by the devil to distrain and deprive those who are here present from such a great blessing--if he is saying false things, let him be punished and let his malice be known to all." My reverent master had hardly finished his prayer when the crooked constable fell flat on his face, hitting the floor so hard that it made the whole church echo.
Peace, Mayor! thou know'st little of my wrongs: Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor King, Hath here distrain'd the Tower to his use.
And therefore since I know of love’s pain, And wot how sore it can a man distrain*, *distress As he that oft hath been caught in his last*, *snare I you forgive wholly this trespass, At request of the queen that kneeleth here, And eke of Emily, my sister dear.
This worthy Phoebus did all that he can To please her, weening, through such pleasance, And for his manhood and his governance, That no man should have put him from her grace; But, God it wot, there may no man embrace As to distrain* a thing, which that nature *succeed in constraining Hath naturally set in a creature.
Therefore we think fit to acquaint your lordship that you must find sufficient security to us, our heirs, and assigns that you will not employ Lewis Baboon, or else we will take our remedy at law, clap an action upon you of 20,000 pounds for old debts, seize and distrain your goods and chattels, which, considering your lordship's circumstances, will plunge you into difficulties, from which it will not be easy to extricate yourself.