NOUN
  • Definition - Treasure.
  • Definition - The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
  • Definition - Race; lineage, pedigree.
  • Definition - Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
  • Example - There is a strain of madness in her family.
  • Definition - A tendency or disposition.
  • Example - There is a strain of madness in her family.
  • Definition - Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style
  • Example - There is a strain of madness in her family.
  • Definition - A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
  • Example - They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.
  • Definition - A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
  • Example - They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.
  • Definition - A kind or sort (of person etc.).
  • Example - They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.
  • Definition - Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
  • Example - They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.
NOUN
  • Definition - The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
  • Example - They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.
  • Definition - A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
  • Example - he jumped up with a strain;   the strain upon the sailboat's rigging
  • Definition - An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
  • Example - he jumped up with a strain;   the strain upon the sailboat's rigging
  • Definition - A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
  • Example - he jumped up with a strain;   the strain upon the sailboat's rigging
  • Definition - The track of a deer.
  • Example - he jumped up with a strain;   the strain upon the sailboat's rigging
VERB
  • Definition - To hold tightly, to clasp.
  • Example - he jumped up with a strain;   the strain upon the sailboat's rigging
  • 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.
Words in your word
7 Letter Words
instars 7 santirs 7 strains 7
6 Letter Words
instar 6 saints 6 santir 6 sarins 6 satins 6 sistra 6 sitars 6 stains 6 stairs 6 strain 6 trains 6
5 Letter Words
airns 5 airts 5 antis 5 arsis 5 astir 5 naris 5 rains 5 ranis 5 rants 5 riant 5 sains 5 saint 5 sarin 5 saris 5 sasin 5 satin 5 satis 5 sitar 5 snits 5 stain 5 stair 5 stars 5 stirs 5 stria 5 tains 5 tarns 5 tarsi 5 tians 5 train 5 trans 5 trass 5 tsars 5
4 Letter Words
ains 4 airn 4 airs 4 airt 4 aits 4 anis 4 anti 4 ants 4 arts 4 nits 4 rain 4 rais 4 rani 4 rant 4 rats 4 rias 4 rins 4 sain 4 sans 4 sari 4 sati 4 sins 4 sirs 4 sits 4 snit 4 sris 4 star 4 stir 4 tain 4 tans 4 tarn 4 tars 4 tass 4 tian 4 tins 4 tsar 4
3 Letter Words
ain 3 air 3 ais 3 ait 3 ani 3 ant 3 ars 3 art 3 ass 3 ins 3 its 3 nit 3 rai 3 ran 3 ras 3 rat 3 ria 3 rin 3 san 3 sat 3 sin 3 sir 3 sis 3 sit 3 sri 3 tan 3 tar 3 tas 3 tin 3 tis 3
2 Letter Words
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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