Definition of "spraining" []

• Present participle of sprain. (verb)

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• "Perhaps Alice accidentally knocks Bob through an open window, and Catherine runs to help him, spraining her ankle and needing help from Daniel, the creepy guy who never talks."
• "During the free skate, I made a long series of mistakes that ended with me badly spraining my ankle."
• "And Yi Jianlian didn't participate in practice and said he was day-to-day after spraining his left ankle in the fourth quarter of the Wizards' 99-92 loss on Saturday to the Atlanta Hawks."