0 past simple and past participle of sprain
1 to cause an injury to a joint (= a place where two bones are connected) by a sudden movement:
He sprained his right knee while training with the national team.
He could struggle to play a major part in the tournament after badly spraining his right ankle.
The player sprained his knee.
Assume that two men have sprained their wrists so that they cannot work.
Perhaps it was in so doing that he sprained his cartilege.
He was complaining at that time of foot trouble and a sprained ankle, and his medical documents show that his ankle was strapped up.
There may be a patient suffering from a sprained ankle as a result of a bicycle accident, or perhaps a woman having an uncomplicated baby.
