intransitive verb. To seize and hold (property) to compel payment or reparation, as of debts.

intransitive verb. To seize the property of (a person) in order to compel payment of debts; distress.

intransitive verb. To levy a distress.

To pull or tear asunder; rend apart.

To press with force; bear with force upon; constrain; compel.

To restrain; bind; confine.

To distress; torment; afflict.

To gain or take possession of; seize; secure.

In law: To take and withhold (another's chattel), in order to apply it in satisfaction of the distrainor's demand against him, or to hold it until he renders satisfaction.

To seize and hold in satisfaction of a demand or claim, or in order to compel the performance of an obligation; seize under judicial process or authority: said of any movable property, or of goods and chattels. See distringas and distress.

To make seizure of goods in satisfaction of a claim, or in order to compel the performance of an obligation.

intransitive verb. To levy a distress.

transitive verb. To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.

transitive verb. To rend; to tear.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To subject to distress; to coerce.

verb. To squeeze, press; to constrain, oppress.

verb. To force (someone) to do something by seizing their property.

verb. To seize somebody's property in place of, or to force, payment of a debt.

verb. To pull off, tear apart.

verb. legally take something in place of a debt payment

verb. levy a distress on

verb. confiscate by distress

"John Upton the Annuity of Forty Shillings out of my said Farme during his life (if till then my Servant) to be paid on Michaelmas day in Lindley each year or else after fourteen days to distrain"

distrainable  distrainee  distrainer  distrainment  distrainor  

Levy  attach  confiscate  impose  impound  

anti-intellectualism  aromatization  depositor  discompose  disconcertion  

coerce  distress  rend  tear  

distrained  distraining  distrains