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strain
English
- 🔊 an intense or violent exertion
- 🔊 (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- 🔊 injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse)
- 🔊 (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress“his responsibilities were a constant strain”
- 🔊 the act of singing“with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates”
- 🔊 the general meaning or substance of an utterance“although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument”
- 🔊 a special variety of domesticated animals within a species“he experimented on a particular breed of white rats”
- 🔊 difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension“she endured the stresses and strains of life”
- 🔊 (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups“a new strain of microorganisms”
- 🔊 an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- 🔊 a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence“she was humming an air from Beethoven”
- 🔊 use to the utmost“He really extended himself when he climbed Kilimanjaro”
- 🔊 become stretched or tense or taut“the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed”
- 🔊 cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious“he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up”
- 🔊 rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender“puree the vegetables for the baby”
- 🔊 test the limits of“You are trying my patience!”
- 🔊 alter the shape of (something) by stress“His body was deformed by leprosy”
- 🔊 to exert much effort or energy“straining our ears to hear”
- 🔊 remove by passing through a filter“filter out the impurities”
- 🔊 separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements“sift the flour”
Spanish
- 🔊 cepa strain
- 🔊 esforzar to strain, struggle
- 🔊 tamizar to strain, sieve, sift
- 🔊 pasar to strain, to sieve, to sift