Straining

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  • v. Present participle of strain.
  • n. The act by which one strains.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • a. & n. from strain.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In saddlery, leather, canvas, or other fabric drawn over a saddle to form a base for the seating.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance
  • n. an intense or violent exertion
  • n. the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
    • Equivalent
    effortful   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    elbow grease    exertion    travail    effort    sweat   
    Cross Reference
    cross-straining   
    Variant
    strain   
    Verb Stem
    strain   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    abstaining    ascertaining    attaining    campaigning    caning   
     
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