Usually means: Injury to ligaments by stretching.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. sprained: Merriam-Webster
  2. sprained: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sprained: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sprained, sprained: Wordnik
  5. sprained: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sprained: Wiktionary
  7. sprained: Dictionary.com
  8. sprained: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Sprained: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Sprained: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. sprained: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. sprained: FreeDictionary.org
  13. sprained: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sprained: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sprained: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. sprained: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sprain)

verb:  To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation
noun:  The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining
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