اینٹھنا

ऐंठना aiṅṭhnā(see aiṅṭnā), v.t. To twist, wind, spin, make into hanks or skeins; to make crooked, to distort; to wring (the ear); to punish, chastise; to tighten, squeeze, press, contract; to wrench from, extort, take by force or fraud, appropriate wrongfully;—v.n. To twist, writhe, wriggle; to cramp; to be tightened, cramped, pressed, to shrink, be contracted; to become rigid, stiff, etc.; to strut, stalk, etc. (=akaṛnā, q.v.):—aiṅṭh-kar, adv. Stiffly, rigidly; affectedly, with a strut, proudly, etc. (=akaṛ-kar):—aiṅṭh-lenā, v.t. (intens. of aiṅṭhnā), To twist tight, etc.; to wring from, extort, etc.: see aiṅṭhnā.