Word Finder - straining

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To hold tightly, to clasp.

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To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.

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Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.

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To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.

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The gale strained the timbers of the ship.

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To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.

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To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.

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Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.

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To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.

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to strain the law in order to convict an accused person

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To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander

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To percolate; to be filtered.

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water straining through a sandy soil

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To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.

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To urge with importunity; to press.

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to strain a petition or invitation

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Hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.

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To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.

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A man straineth, liveth, then dieth.

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The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc)

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Filtering, the process of passing something through a strainer.

She waited breathlessly, straining to hear the least noise.

She stopped, straining to hear the conversation.

Straining Actions.

She glanced down at the straining bodice and made a face.

She wore a camisole and shorts, her large breasts straining at the thin fabric between them.

In the modern metal bridge every member has a definite function and is subjected to a calculated straining action.

It has come down in a very corrupt state, and its difficulties are increased by the unpoetical nature of the subject, the straining after conciseness, and the obtrusive use of metaphor.

A whisper soft movement in the night alerted her, and she held her breath, straining her eyes into the darkness.

Later, as she was straining the water from the potatoes, Cade wandered in.

His voice was hoarse, his body straining.

She stopped straining and rested her head against his chest.

The pipes are best supported on rollers which allow of movement without straining the joints.

If land forms may be compared to organs, the part they serve in the economy of the earth may, without straining the term, be characterized as functions.

After purification by straining, it is sold as "Strasburg turpentine," much used in the preparation of some of the finer varnishes.

He constructed gratings up to 340 periods to the inch by straining fine wire over screws.

It is sometimes said that a bar is " fatigued " by repeated straining.

Probably a straining of water from solid particles is effected by the lattice-work of the ctenidia or gill-plates.

His prose writings gained great reputation in their own day, and long afterwards, but are disfigured by apparent straining after effect, and by frequent puerility and circumlocution.

It is useless to follow Boehme further, for his cosmogony is disfigured by a wild Paracelsian symbolism, and his constructive efforts in general are full of the uncouth straining of an untrained writer.

Intellectual growth was accompanied by great religious activity; it is no longer merely on the old questions of dispute between church and state that then were straining Religious their minds.

With a little straining these are made to correspond to five chief divisions of Jus, - personal security (benevolence being opposed to the ill-will that commonly causes personal injuries), property, contract, marriage and government; while the first, second and fourth, again, regulate respectively the three chief classes of human motives, - affections, mental desires and appetites.

Having had personal experience of the unremunerative character both of music and of mathematics, he desired that his son should apply himself to the cultivation of medicine, and, not without some straining of his slender resources, placed him, before he had completed his eighteenth year, at the university of Pisa.

He took a visual survey of her from the boots up, his unabashed gaze lingering on her straining shirt buttons.

His season was passing like tomatoes still green when the frost hits, unable to fulfill what they've been straining to achieve through the long hot summer.

According to the lawyer, Lori could contest the will — which would be expensive and straining on everyone.

It keeps the body supple without straining and can be used to relieve pain in labor and ease childbirth.

Slightly ahead of him, straining against a leather choker, was the biggest Staffordshire bull terrier I had ever seen.

Restructuring and budget cutbacks are straining the system and placing accelerating demands on personnel.

Patients were asked to record daily bowel movements, abdominal pain and bloating, straining and incomplete evacuation.

Then drill through the end posts and fix straining eye bolts.

This netting is temporarily pegged onto the straining wires and can be removed easily when the weather turns inclement.

The work is sore straining; was laid by for three months short time since with pains in the limbs, caused by overwork.

Till the swap's done He sits like a yoga Straining the wires of strangeness - After all, he does have perfect pitch.

Clues include abnormal posture; straining; lying with tummy pressed to the floor; or reluctance to move.

A variation of this method is to use a wire strop, attached as shown to the straining post.

If motions are hard and difficult to void, try inserting a glycerol suppository to reduce straining.

I found that it was as well for me to rest on my oars and wait his reappearing as to endeavor to calculate where he would rise; for again and again, when I was straining my eyes over the surface one way, I would suddenly be startled by his unearthly laugh behind me.

As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its former position.

The Tsar said something more which Rostov did not hear, and the soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted "Hurrah!"

Those standing in front, who had seen and heard what had taken place before them, all stood with wide-open eyes and mouths, straining with all their strength, and held back the crowd that was pushing behind them.

Their un- Russian shouting at their horses which were straining uphill with the carts, and their calls to one another, could be clearly heard.

All his life he had looked over the heads of the men around him, when he should have merely looked in front of him without straining his eyes.

Moving away from the traditional crumble, try making a spiced rhubarb chutney or rhubarb cordial by boiling the rhubarb with sugar and straining.

So we wait impatiently and straining at the leash.

If your baby appears to be in pain, however, as she attempts to have a bowel movement, or she cries while straining, she may indeed be constipated.

Try a refreshing Frozen Mint Julep by muddling the mint in simple syrup, and then straining the leaves and blending the remains with bourbon and cracked ice in a blender.

Each recipe calls for chilling the ingredients over ice and then straining the drink into a chilled martini glass.

Tea is made by boiling the berries, straining away the fruit, and sipping the decoction.

Don't go for pieces that will obstruct views, so people have lots of choices for places to stretch out in your theater without straining to see the screen.

Taller than a traditional kitchen countertop, this height is ideal for folding clothes without straining your back.