VERB
  • Definition - To hold tightly, to clasp.
  • Definition - To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
  • Example - Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
  • Definition - To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
  • Example - The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
  • Definition - To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
  • Example - The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
  • Definition - To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
  • Example - Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
  • Definition - To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
  • Example - to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
  • Definition - To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
  • Example - to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
  • Definition - To percolate; to be filtered.
  • Example - water straining through a sandy soil
  • Definition - To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
  • Example - water straining through a sandy soil
  • Definition - To urge with importunity; to press.
  • Example - to strain a petition or invitation
  • Definition - Hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
  • Example - to strain a petition or invitation
VERB
  • Definition - To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.
  • Example - A man straineth, liveth, then dieth.
NOUN
  • Definition - The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc)
  • Example - A man straineth, liveth, then dieth.
  • Definition - Filtering, the process of passing something through a strainer.
  • Example - A man straineth, liveth, then dieth.
Words in your word
9 Letter Words
straining 10 trainings 10
8 Letter Words
ingrains 9 rantings 9 sainting 9 satining 9 staining 9 training 9
4 Letter Words
agin 5 gain 5 gait 5 gars 5 gast 5 gats 5 gins 5 girn 5 girt 5 gist 5 gits 5 gnar 5 gnat 5 gran 5 grat 5 grin 5 grit 5 nags 5 ragi 5 rags 5 rang 5 rigs 5 ring 5 sang 5 sign 5 sing 5 snag 5 stag 5 tags 5 tang 5 ting 5 trig 5 ains 4 airn 4 airs 4 airt 4 aits 4 anis 4 anti 4 ants 4 arts 4 inia 4 inns 4 inti 4 iris 4 nans 4 nisi 4 nits 4 rain 4 rais 4
3 Letter Words
ags 4 gan 4 gar 4 gas 4 gat 4 gin 4 gis 4 git 4 nag 4 rag 4 rig 4 sag 4 sig 4 tag 4 ain 3 air 3 ais 3 ait 3 ani 3 ant 3 ars 3 art 3 inn 3 ins 3 its 3 nan 3 nit 3 rai 3 ran 3 ras 3 rat 3 ria 3 rin 3 san 3 sat 3 sin 3 sir 3 sit 3 sri 3 tan 3 tar 3 tas 3 tin 3 tis 3
2 Letter Words
ag 3 gi 3 ai 2 an 2 ar 2 as 2 at 2 in 2 is 2 it 2 na 2 si 2 ta 2 ti 2
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