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strainnoun1 the line of ancestors from whom a person is descendeddescended from a strain of Irish seafarers ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, breeding, descent, extraction, family tree, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock heredity, successionfamily, housekin, kindred, relations, relativesrace issue, posterity, progeny, seed offspringchild, heir, inheritor, son, successor a rhythmic series of musical tones arranged to give a pleasing effectthe strain of an old Irish ballad rose up from the revelers downstairs air, lay, melody, song, tune, warble descant(also discant)cadence, measure, meter, rhythmballad, ditty, hymn, lyric, madrigal a very small amountdetected a strain of panic in her voice when she asked if the substance was poisonous ace, bit, crumb, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, hint, lick, little, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, ray, scintilla, scruple, shade, shadow, shred, skosh, smack, smell, smidgen(also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), snap, soupçon, spark, spatter, speck, splash, spot, sprinkling, streak, suspicion, tad, touch, trace hoot, iota, jot, minim, minimum, modicum, semblance, syllable, tittle, vestige, whitatom, dot, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, patch, scrapdash, drop, pinchpart, portion, sectionbite, nibble, tastehandful, scattering, smatter, smatteringdose, shotchip, flake, fragment, shard, shiver, sliver, smithereens, splintertatterclipping, paring, shaving drop in the bucket abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, lashings(also lashins, chiefly British), loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, oodles, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, wad, wealthvolumebonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surpluschunk, hunk, lump, slab a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in commonwrites mystery novels of a more sophisticated strain breed, class, description, feather, genre, ilk, kidney, kind, like, manner, nature, order, sort, species, stripe, type, variety modelsample, specimenbracket, bunch, category, division, family, grade, group, grouping, lot, persuasion, rank(s), set, suite the burden on one's emotional or mental well-being created by demands on one's timethe family's constant moving is putting a real strain on the children pressure, stress, tension load, weightanxiety, concern, uneasiness, worryaggravation, anger, annoyance, exasperation, irritation, persecution, trouble comfort, consolation to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressurein order to lift something heavy, squat down and lift with your legs, or you'll strain your back pull, rack, stretch, wrench fray, tax, weakendamage, harm, hurt, impair, woundbatter, bruise, tearcripple, lame, mangle, mutilate to pass through a filterbetter strain that coffee thoroughly to get all the grounds out to devote serious and sustained effortthe whole department is straining to complete the project before the deadline bang away, beaver (away), dig (away), drudge, endeavor, fag, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg (away), plod, plow, plug, slave, slog, strive, struggle, sweat, toil, travail, tug, work apply (oneself), buckle (down), dig in, hammer (away), knuckle down, pitch inattack, driveessay, tryexercise, exert, overexert, overworkeke out, grind (out), put out, scrabble, scratchtrudge, wade sweat blood break, ease (up), let up, slackenbum, chill, dally, dillydally, footle, goldbrick, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), idle, laze, loaf, lounge, shirk, slack (off), veg outbask, loll, relax, repose, rest, unwinddabble, doodle, fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang, hang about(British), mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle to flow forth slowly through small openingsput the cooked fruit in a cheesecloth bag and let the juice strain into a pan bleed, exude, ooze, percolate, seep, sweat, transude, weep dribble, drip, trickledischarge, emit, give off, ventemanate, flow, spring flood, gush, pour, stream, surge to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stressstrained her memory but the name just wouldn't come to her stretch, tax, test, try demand, exact, importune, press, pressure, pushaggravate, agitate, annoy, bother, exasperate, gall, get (to), gnaw (at), grate, harass, harry, hassle, irk, irritate, nettle, pain, peeve, pester, rile, spite, vex to draw tightthe dog strained its leash trying to get to the cat stretch, tauten, tense, tighten elongate, extend, lengthencinch, constrict loosen, slack, slacken ease, relax to put one's arms around and press tightlythe woman tenderly strained to her breast the child that she had long ago given up for dead bear-hug, clasp, crush, embrace, enclasp, enfold, grasp, hug clamp, cling, cradle, grab, grip, holdbosom, embosom, encircle, entwine, envelop, enwindfold, lock, twine, wrapcuddle, fondle, nestle, nuzzle, pat, pet, snuggle, stroke in the 13th century |