Vocabulary : Distrain to Distraughted

Distrain : To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict. ;; To rend; to tear. ;; 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. ;; To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels. ;; To levy a distress.
Distrainable : Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
Distrained : of Distrain
Distrainer : Same as Distrainor.
Distraining : of Distrain

Distrainor : One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.
Distraint : The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.
Distrait : Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.
Distraught : of Distract ;; Torn asunder; separated. ;; Distracted; perplexed.
Distraughted : Distracted.

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