transitive verb
intransitive verb
Middle English distreynen, from Anglo-French destreindre, from Medieval Latin distringere, from Latin, to draw apart, detain, from dis- + stringere to bind tight — more at strain
14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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