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strainsnoun1pl. of strain the line of ancestors from whom a person is descendeddescended from a strain of Irish seafarers ancestries, births, blood, bloodlines, breedings, descents, extractions, family trees, genealogies, lineages, lines, origins, parentages, pedigrees, stocks heredities, successionsfamilies, houseskindreds, kins, relations, relativesraces issues, posterities, progenies, seed(or seeds) a rhythmic series of musical tones arranged to give a pleasing effectthe strain of an old Irish ballad rose up from the revelers downstairs offspring(also offsprings)children, heirs, inheritors, sons, successors airs, lays, melodies, songs, tunes, warbles descants(also discants)cadences, measures, meters, rhythmsballads, ditties, hymns, lyrics, madrigals a very small amountdetected a strain of panic in her voice when she asked if the substance was poisonous aces, bits, crumbs, dabs, drams, driblets, glimmers, hints, licks, little, mites, nips, ounces, particles, peanuts, rays, scintillas, scruples, shades, shadows, shreds, skoshes, smacks, smells, smidgens(also smidgeons or smidgins or smidges), snaps, soupçons, sparks, spatters, specks, splashes, spots, sprinklings, streaks, suspicions, touches, traces hoots, iotas, jots, minima(or minimums), minims, modicums, semblances, syllables, tittles, vestiges, whitsatoms, dots, flecks, flyspecks, grains, granules, molecules, morsels, motes, nubbins, patches, scrapsdashes, drops, pinchesparts, portions, sectionsbites, nibbles, tasteshandfuls(also handsful), scatterings, smatterings, smattersdoses, shotschips, flakes, fragments, shards, shivers, slivers, smithereens, splintersshreds, tattersclippings, parings, shavings drops in the bucket abundances, barrels, boatloads, buckets, bundles, bushels, deals, fistfuls, gobs, heaps, lashings(also lashins, chiefly British), loads, lots, masses, messes, mountains, much, oodles, passels, pecks, piles, plenties, potfuls, profusions, quantities, rafts, reams, scads, stacks, wads, wealthsvolumesbonanzas, embarrassments, excesses, overabundances, overages, overflows, overkills, overmuch, oversupplies, superabundances, superfluities, surfeits, surpluseschunks, hunks, lumps, slabs a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in commonwrites mystery novels of a more sophisticated strain breeds, classes, descriptions, feathers, genres, ilks, kidneys, kinds, likes, manners, natures, orders, sorts, species, stripes, types, varieties modelssamples, specimensbrackets, bunches, categories, divisions, families, grades, groupings, groups, lots, persuasions, ranks, sets, suites 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 pressures, stresses, tensions loads, weightsanxieties, concerns, worriesaggravations, angers, annoyances, exasperations, irritations, persecutions, troubles comforts, consolations 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 pulls, racks, stretches, wrenches frays, taxes, weakensdamages, harms, hurts, impairs, woundsbatters, bruises, tearscripples, lames, mangles, mutilates 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 bangs away, beavers (away), digs (away), drudges, endeavors, fags, grubs, humps, hustles, labors, moils, pegs (away), plods, plows, plugs, slaves, slogs, strives, struggles, sweats, toils, travails, tugs, works applies (oneself), buckles (down), digs in, hammers (away), knuckles down, pitches inattacks, drivesessays, triesexercises, exerts, overexerts, overworksekes out, grinds (out), puts out, scrabbles, scratchestrudges, wades sweats blood breaks, eases (up), lets up, slackensbums, chills, dallies, dillydallies, footles, goldbricks, goofs (off), hacks (around), hangs (around or out), idles, lazes, loafs, lounges, shirks, slacks (off), vegges out(or veges out)basks, lolls, relaxes, reposes, rests, unwindsdabbles, doodles, fools around, fribbles, goofs (around), hangs, hangs about(British), messes around, monkeys (around), plays, potters (around), putters (around), trifles to flow forth slowly through small openingsput the cooked fruit in a cheesecloth bag and let the juice strain into a pan bleeds, exudes, oozes, percolates, seeps, sweats, transudes, weeps dribbles, drips, tricklesdischarges, emits, gives off, ventsemanates, flows, springs floods, gushes, pours, streams, surges to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stressstrained her memory but the name just wouldn't come to her stretches, taxes, tests, tries demands, exacts, importunes, presses, pressures, pushesaggravates, agitates, annoys, bothers, exasperates, galls, gets (to), gnaws (at), grates, harasses, harries, hassles, irks, irritates, nettles, pains, peeves, pesters, riles, spites, vexes to draw tightthe dog strained its leash trying to get to the cat stretches, tautens, tenses, tightens elongates, extends, lengthenscinches, constricts loosens, slackens, slacks eases, relaxes 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-hugs, clasps, crushes, embraces, enclasps, enfolds, grasps, hugs clamps, clings, cradles, grabs, grips, holdsbosoms, embosoms, encircles, entwines, envelops, enwindsfolds, locks, twines, wrapscuddles, fondles, nestles, nuzzles, pats, pets, snuggles, strokes |