To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
A cause of such discomfort.
The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Serious danger.
A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
To cause pain or distress to (someone / one's heart, soul, etc.).
To slide two ultraflat surfaces together such that their faces bond.
To bend or strain out of its position.
To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out.
To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it.
To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force.
To draw (something from or out of someone); to generate (something) as a response.
To hold (something) tightly and press or twist.
A powerful squeezing or twisting action.