sprain

«sprain» in Mova's school dictionary: to hurt it by twisting it suddenly, so the joint swells… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (sprain, sprains, sprained, spraining); noun (a sprain, sprains)

meaning for a pupil

1) To sprain your ankle, wrist or knee is to hurt it by twisting it suddenly, so the joint swells and is painful. tree →

2) (noun) A sprain is this injury. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in health and first aid: a sprain is treated with rest, ice, a bandage and raising the limb (RICE). In PE and sport: warm up to avoid sprains. Different from a broken bone, though both may need a doctor.

examples

• I sprained my ankle playing football. tree →
• She has a sprained wrist. tree →
• Put ice on the sprain to stop the swelling. tree →
• Rest your foot until the sprain heals. tree →
• A sprain hurts but it is not a broken bone. tree →
• He sprained his knee jumping off the wall. tree →
• One morning, however, poor Thasus found that he had sprained his ankle, and could not possibly go a step farther. tree →

note

Regular verb: sprained. Countable noun. A "strain" is a hurt muscle; a "sprain" is a hurt joint (ligament). If you cannot put weight on it, see a doctor.

In the corpora

• For a sprained ankle, rest it, put a cold pack on, raise it and tell an adult.
• The small bones in the fingers and hand break or sprain easily when they punch something.
• A swelling ankle may be sprained; running on it can make it worse, so tell the coach.
• Running it off is a myth; carrying on playing on a sprain can make it worse.
• A hidden injury played on often gets worse, so a small sprain can turn into weeks out instead of one missed match.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sprain» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.