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strainingverbpresent participle of strain 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 pulling, racking, stretching, wrenching fraying, taxing, weakeningdamaging, harming, hurting, impairing, woundingbattering, bruising, tearingcrippling, laming, mangling, mutilating 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 banging away, beavering (away), digging (away), drudging, endeavoring, fagging, grubbing, humping, hustling, laboring, moiling, pegging (away), plodding, plowing, plugging, slaving, slogging, striving, struggling, sweating, toiling, travailing, tugging, working applying (oneself), buckling (down), digging in, hammering (away), knuckling down, pitching inattacking, drivingessaying, tryingexercising, exerting, overexerting, overworkingeking out, grinding (out), putting out, scrabbling, scratchingtrudging, wading sweating blood breaking, easing (up), letting up, slackeningbumming, chilling, dallying, dillydallying, footling, goldbricking, goofing (off), hacking (around), hanging (around or out), idling, lazing, loafing, lounging, shirking, slacking (off), vegging outbasking, lolling, relaxing, reposing, resting, unwindingdabbling, doodling, fooling around, fribbling, goofing (around), hanging, hanging about(British), messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling to flow forth slowly through small openingsput the cooked fruit in a cheesecloth bag and let the juice strain into a pan bleeding, exuding, oozing, percolating, seeping, sweating, transuding, weeping dribbling, dripping, tricklingdischarging, emitting, giving off, ventingemanating, flowing, springing flooding, gushing, pouring, streaming, surging to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stressstrained her memory but the name just wouldn't come to her stretching, taxing, testing, trying demanding, exacting, importuning, pressing, pressuring, pushingaggravating, agitating, annoying, bothering, exasperating, galling, getting (to), gnawing (at), grating, harassing, harrying, hassling, irking, irritating, nettling, paining, peeving, pestering, riling, spiting, vexing to draw tightthe dog strained its leash trying to get to the cat stretching, tautening, tensing, tightening elongating, extending, lengtheningcinching, constricting loosening, slackening, slacking easing, relaxing 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-hugging, clasping, crushing, embracing, enclasping, enfolding, grasping, hugging clamping, clinging, cradling, grabbing, gripping, holdingbosoming, embosoming, encircling, entwining, enveloping, enwindingfolding, locking, twining, wrappingcuddling, fondling, nestling, nuzzling, patting, petting, snuggling, stroking |