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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprain/#m1)

2) (noun) A sprain is this injury. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprain/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprain/#x1)
- She has a sprained wrist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprain/#x2)
- Put ice on the sprain to stop the swelling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprain/#x3)
- Rest your foot until the sprain heals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprain/#x4)
- A sprain hurts but it is not a broken bone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprain/#x5)
- He sprained his knee jumping off the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprain/#x6)
- One morning, however, poor Thasus found that he had sprained his ankle, and could not possibly go a step farther. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprain/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/15/)
- [The small bones in the fingers and hand break or sprain easily when they punch something.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth/28/)
- [A swelling ankle may be sprained; running on it can make it worse, so tell the coach.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/51-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult/16/)
- [Running it off is a myth; carrying on playing on a sprain can make it worse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/3-sprains-strains-and-bruises/4/)
- [A hidden injury played on often gets worse, so a small sprain can turn into weeks out instead of one missed match.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sprain» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprain/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.