Word Finder - strains

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Treasure.

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The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.

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Race; lineage, pedigree.

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Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.

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There is a strain of madness in her family.

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A tendency or disposition.

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Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style

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A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.

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They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.

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A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.

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A kind or sort (of person etc.).

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Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.

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The act of straining, or the state of being strained.

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A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.

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he jumped up with a strain;   the strain upon the sailboat's rigging

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An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.

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A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.

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The track of a deer.

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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.