Distrain is valid Scrabble Word

Is distrain a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is distrain valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for DISTRAIN in dictionary:

VERB:

to seize and hold property as security
seize the property of (someone) in order to obtain payment of money owed
seize (personal property) to enforce payment of a debt
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.
levy a distress on
confiscate by distress

legally take something in place of a debt payment
seize (someone's property) in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed

Words related to DISTRAIN

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Words that contain DISTRAIN

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How to use DISTRAIN in a sentence

No one shall distrain a debtor without a judge, nor any one who is not his debtor, or the surety for such debtor.
He describes the interior of a cottage like a person sent there to distrain for rent.
Accounts were hardly ever shown by the commissioners, and if a proprietor refused to pay the sums levied they were empowered to distrain immediately.
No more their rent-days they may keep, nor agents harsh distrain, The widow need no longer weep, for over is their reign.

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