distrained

Verb

distrain (third-person singular simple present distrains, present participle distraining, simple past and past participle distrained)

1. (obsolete) To squeeze, press, embrace; to constrain, oppress.
   • But when he heard her answeres loth, he knew / Some secret sorrow did her heart distraine […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
2. (obsolete, transitive) To force (someone) to do something by seizing their property.
   • to distrain a person by his goods and chattels
3. (intransitive) To seize somebody's property in place of, or to force, payment of a debt.

   Synonyms:

   distress

4. (obsolete) To pull off, tear apart.
   • For that same net so cunningly was wound, / That neither guile, nor force might it distraine.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC