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Straining

noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc)

    "sundry violent gaspings and strainings"

  2. 2
    an intense or violent exertion wordnet
  3. 3
    filtering, the process of passing something through a strainer.

    "Then after that process which Culverwel describes as so many strainings, refinings, and clarifyings, the mind is prepared for a true insight into the real nature of the world by way of intuition."

  4. 4
    the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of strain form-of, gerund, participle, present

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