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(noun) an intense or violent exertion |
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Synonyms: straining, stress |
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Related Words: effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail |
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(verb) use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity; "He really extended himself when he climbed Kilimanjaro"; "Don't strain your mind too much" |
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Synonyms: extend |
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Related Words: apply, employ, overextend, overstrain, task, tax, use, utilise, utilize |
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(verb) stretch or force to the limit; "strain the rope" |
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Synonyms: tense |
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Related Words: tighten |
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(noun) (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces |
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Related Words: deformation, overstrain |
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(noun) injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain |
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Related Words: harm, hurt, injury, trauma |
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(noun) nervousness resulting from mental stress; "his responsibilities were a constant strain"; "the mental strain of staying alert hour after hour was too much for him" |
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Synonyms: mental strain, nervous strain |
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Related Words: jitters, nerves, nervousness, screaming meemies, stress, tenseness, tension |
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(verb) make tense |
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Synonyms: tense, tense up |
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Related Words: affect, crick, extend, stretch |
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Antonyms: unstrain |
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(noun) the act of singing; "with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates" |
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Synonyms: song |
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Related Words: aria, carol, cradlesong, lullaby, vocal music |
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(verb) rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender; "puree the vegetables for the baby" |
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Synonyms: puree |
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Related Words: rub |
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(verb) test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!" |
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Synonyms: stress, try |
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Related Words: afflict, rack |
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(noun) a lineage or race of people |
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Synonyms: breed |
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Related Words: ancestry, derivation, filiation, lineage |
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(noun) pervading note of an utterance; "I could follow the general tenor of his argument" |
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Synonyms: tenor |
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Related Words: drift, meaning, purport, sense, substance |
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(noun) a special kind of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new variety of sheep" |
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Synonyms: breed, stock, variety |
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Related Words: animal group, bloodstock, pedigree |
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(noun) a state of extreme difficulty: "he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"- R.J.Samuelson |
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Synonyms: stress |
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Related Words: difficulty |
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(verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy" |
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Synonyms: deform, distort |
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Related Words: form, jaundice, shape |
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(verb) to exert much effort or energy: "straining our ears to hear." |
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Synonyms: reach, strive |
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Related Words: bother, drive, extend oneself, inconvenience oneself, kill oneself, labor, labour, overexert oneself, overstrain, push, trouble, trouble oneself, tug |
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(verb) remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities" |
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Synonyms: filter, filter out, filtrate, separate out |
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Related Words: separate |
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(verb) separate by sifting, as of flour; also used for information |
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Synonyms: sieve, sift |
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Related Words: fan, resift, riddle, screen, separate, winnow |
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(noun) (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups; "a new strain of microorganisms" |
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Synonyms: form, var., variant |
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Related Words: taxon, taxonomic group |
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(noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal |
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Synonyms: nisus, pains, striving |
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Related Words: attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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(noun) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven" |
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Synonyms: air, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, tune |
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Related Words: fanfare, flourish, glissando, idea, leitmotif, leitmotiv, melodic theme, music, musical theme, part, signature, signature tune, theme, theme song, voice |
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