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strainedadjective lacking in natural or spontaneous qualityI took the complaint manager's strained smile to mean I wasn't a welcome sight affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, contrived, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony(also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious, unnatural automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealisticdouble-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuousexaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical(also theatric)cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simperingconventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, woodenartful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied artless, genuine, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, uncontrived, unfeigned, unforced authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, truehonest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretendingeasy, effortless, smoothextemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied 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 pulled, racked, stretched, wrenched frayed, taxed, weakeneddamaged, harmed, hurt, impaired, woundedbattered, bruised, torecrippled, lamed, mangled, mutilated 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 banged away, beavered (away), drudged, dug (away), endeavored, fagged, grubbed, humped, hustled, labored, moiled, pegged (away), plodded, plowed, plugged, slaved, slogged, strove(also strived), struggled, sweat(or sweated), toiled, travailed, tugged, worked(or wrought) applied (oneself), buckled (down), dug in, hammered (away), knuckled down, pitched inattacked, droveessayed, triedexercised, exerted, overexerted, overworkedeked out, ground (out), put out, scrabbled, scratchedtrudged, waded sweat blood(or sweated blood) broke, eased (up), let up, slackenedbummed, chilled, dallied, dillydallied, footled, goldbricked, goofed (off), hacked (around), hung (around or out)(also hanged (around or out)), idled, lazed, loafed, lounged, shirked, slacked (off), vegged outbasked, lolled, relaxed, reposed, rested, unwounddabbled, doodled, fooled around, fribbled, goofed (around), hung(also hanged), hung about(British), messed around, monkeyed (around), played, pottered (around), puttered (around), trifled to flow forth slowly through small openingsput the cooked fruit in a cheesecloth bag and let the juice strain into a pan bled, exuded, oozed, percolated, seeped, sweat(or sweated), transuded, wept dribbled, dripped, trickleddischarged, emitted, gave off, ventedemanated, flowed, sprang(or sprung) flooded, gushed, poured, streamed, surged to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stressstrained her memory but the name just wouldn't come to her stretched, taxed, tested, tried demanded, exacted, importuned, pressed, pressured, pushedaggravated, agitated, annoyed, bothered, exasperated, galled, gnawed (at), got (to), grated, harassed, harried, hassled, irked, irritated, nettled, pained, peeved, pestered, riled, spited, vexed(also vext) to draw tightthe dog strained its leash trying to get to the cat stretched, tautened, tensed, tightened elongated, extended, lengthenedcinched, constricted loosened, slacked, slackened eased, relaxed 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-hugged, clasped, crushed, embraced, enclasped, enfolded, grasped, hugged clamped, clung, cradled, grabbed, gripped, heldbosomed, embosomed, encircled, entwined, enveloped, enwoundfolded, locked, twined, wrappedcuddled, fondled, nestled, nuzzled, patted, petted, snuggled, stroked ca. 1542 |