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Noun distraint has 1 sense
- distress, distraint - the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landloard's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"
--1 is a kind of seizure
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