To injure or pain (a person, the limbs, etc.) by undue straining or stretching; to rick, sprain, strain.

To overstrain the muscles of (a joint, etc.); to sprain, strain, or rick (the foot, ankle, etc.). Chiefly Scottish.

To injure or alter by excessive tension. To injure (a limb, muscle, tendon, etc.) by stretching or over-exertion; to sprain. Also reflexive of a…

transitive. To wrench or twist (a part of the body) so as to cause pain or difficulty in moving.

= rinse, v.

transitive. To twist, wrench, or strain (a joint, muscle, etc.).

transitive. To cause subluxation of (a bone, joint, etc.). Also intransitive: to undergo subluxation.

transitive. To twist (an ankle) out of position, esp. by landing awkwardly; to wrench or sprain.

transitive. Scottish. To sprain, wrench, or contort (a part of one's body). Cf. to throw out 16 at phrasal verbs.

transitive. To twist or sprain (the ankle, etc.); to rick or wrench.

To turn in a particular direction; to turn or twist out of the normal position. Now spec. in Pathology or Anatomy.

To sprain (one's thumb, etc.) Scottish.

transitive. = crick, v.2 rare.

transitive. To sprain or strain.

transitive. To strain or damage (a muscle, ligament, etc.) by excessive stretching.