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 dis·train /dɪˈstren/
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 Dis·train v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distrained p. pr. & vb. n. Distraining.]
 1. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. [Obs.] “Distrained with chains.”
 2. To rend; to tear. [Obs.]
    Neither guile nor force might it [a net] distrain.   --Spenser.
 3. Law (a) 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. (b) To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.

 Dis·train, v. i. To levy a distress.
    Upon whom I can distrain for debt.   --Camden.
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 distrain
      v 1: levy a distress on
      2: confiscate by distress
      3: legally take something in place of a debt payment