straining
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Definitions ofstraining
- To hold tightly, to clasp.
- 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."
- To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
Example: "The gale strained the timbers of the ship."
- To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- 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."
- 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"
- To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
- To percolate; to be filtered.
Example: "water straining through a sandy soil"
- To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- To urge with importunity; to press.
Example: "to strain a petition or invitation"
- Hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- 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."
- The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc)
- Filtering, the process of passing something through a strainer.
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