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strain1
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- pronunciation:
- streIn
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb, noun), Word Builder, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
strains, straining, strained |
| definition 1: |
to pull or stretch to a high degree of tension.
- synonyms:
- pull, stretch, tighten
- similar words:
- bend, draw, elongate, extend, rack, stress, tauten
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| definition 2: |
to exert or extend to the maximum.
- synonyms:
- exert
- similar words:
- bend, rack, sensitize, stress, stretch
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| definition 3: |
to push beyond limit, reason, or endurance.
- synonyms:
- overexert, overextend
- similar words:
- exert, exhaust, fatigue, force, overburden, overdo, overtax, push, stress, stretch, tax, wipe out
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| definition 4: |
to injure, impair, or weaken by excessive stress.
He strained a muscle during practice.- synonyms:
- injure, pull
- similar words:
- damage, fatigue, hurt, sprain, twist, wrench
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| definition 5: |
to cause through stress, mechanical failure of.
- similar words:
- crack, fatigue, rack
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| definition 6: |
to pass (a substance) through a sieve or filter.
The chef strained the sauce.- synonyms:
- filter, sieve
- similar words:
- drain, purify, rack, refine, screen
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| definition 7: |
to remove (something) by filtering.
The chef strained the lumps from the sauce.- synonyms:
- filter
- similar words:
- extract, remove, screen
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| related words: |
bolt, burden, distress, drive, embarrass, filter, fray, pull, stretch, try, turn, wear |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to pull energetically or forcibly.
- similar words:
- heave, pull, struggle, tug
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| definition 2: |
to expend the maximum amount of effort; strive.
- synonyms:
- labor, strive
- similar words:
- drive, press on, slave, struggle, toil, tug, work
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| definition 3: |
to put one's nerves and muscles under the maximum amount of stress.
- similar words:
- strive, toil
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| definition 4: |
to filter, trickle, or percolate through something.
- synonyms:
- filter, sieve
- similar words:
- drip, ooze, percolate, trickle
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| related words: |
fatigue, labor, lug |
adverb + (v.)strain
aside, severely, slightly
(v.)strain
+ adverb
forward, hard, upward
(v.)strain
+ noun
bowl,
breaking,
broth,
budget,
capacity,
cheesecloth,
credibility,
credulity,
ear,
eye,
fabric,
finance,
gauge,
glimpse,
hamstring,
juice,
knee,
leash,
limit,
liquid,
mixture,
relation,
relationship,
resource,
rope,
sauce,
seed,
sieve,
solid,
strainer,
tension,
tie,
vegetable
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
the act or process of straining.
- synonyms:
- tension
- similar words:
- fatigue
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| definition 2: |
the condition of being strained.
- synonyms:
- effort, exertion
- similar words:
- fatigue, tension
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| definition 3: |
an injury or impairment resulting from placing too much stress on some part of the body.
- similar words:
- wrench
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| definition 4: |
extreme pressure or force, sometimes causing harm or deformity.
- synonyms:
- stress
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| definition 5: |
severe or exhausting emotional pressure.
- synonyms:
- stress, tension
- similar words:
- fatigue, pressure, tax
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| related words: |
brunt, burden, distress, exertion, fatigue, kind, load, nerve, travail, tug, twist, weight |
adjective + (n.)strain
abdominal, additional, considerable, constant, emotional, enormous, financial, mild, particular, repetitive, resistant, severe, tectonic, terrible, tremendous, undue
verb + (n.)strain
cause, detect, ease, experience, measure, minimize, place, put, relieve, withstand
(n.)strain
+ verb
circulate, evolve, isolate, recover
noun + (n.)strain
adjustment, burden, groin, infection, muscle, neck, sign, sprain, stress
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| derivations: |
strainless (adj.), strainingly (adv.), strainlessly (adv.) |
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