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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to strain:   (226 results)

Appears in the definition of:
., accommodational, africanized bee, africanized honey bee, apis mellifera adansonii, apis mellifera scutellata, aplomb, assuredness, at ease, bear down, bearinga, bemisia tabaci, bruise, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, casual, cenogenesis, cool, distressed, ease, effortless, extend oneself, fag, fag out, fatigue, gag, halting, heave, hitch, hooke's law, in a bad wayp, jade, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, killer bee, kill oneself, lumbago, lumbar pain, mental strain, norflex, orphenadrine, outwear, overexert oneself, overextend, overstrain, overstretch, pacific bonito, palingenesis, poinsettia strain, poise, pull, purebred, ragged, recapitulation, relaxation, relaxed, repose, rest, retch, rubberneck, sang-froid, sarda lineolata, sign, strain gage, strain gauge, stress, stressed, superbug, tell on, tenseness, tension, tire, tire out, tug, twist, unbend, unrelaxed, weakness, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary, wrench

More general:
afflict, ancestry, animal group, apply, attempt, deformation, derivation, difficulty, drive, effort, elbow grease, employ, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, filiation, form, harm, hurt, injury, jitters, labor, labour, lineage, meaning, music, nerves, nervousness, push, rub, screaming meemies, sense, separate, shape, substance, sweat, taxon, taxonomic group, tighten, trauma, travail, try, tug, use, utilise, utilize, vocal music

Synonyms:
air, breed, deform, distort, extend, filter, filter out, filtrate, form, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, mental strain, nervous strain, nisus, pains, puree, reach, separate out, sieve, sift, song, stock, straining, stress, strive, striving, tenor, tense, tense up, try, tune, var., variant, variety

More specific:
aria, bloodstock, bother, carol, cradlesong, crick, drift, extend, extend oneself, fan, fanfare, flourish, glissando, idea, inconvenience oneself, jaundice, kill oneself, leitmotif, leitmotiv, lullaby, melodic theme, musical theme, overexert oneself, overextend, overstrain, part, pedigree, purport, rack, resift, riddle, screen, signature, signature tune, stress, stretch, task, tax, tenseness, tension, theme, theme song, trouble, trouble oneself, voice, winnow

Often used in the same context:
deadly, pressure, strained, stress, tension

Antonyms:
loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unlax, unstrain, unwind

Contains:
musical phrase, phrase



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See strain used in context: 26 Shakespeare works, 1 Bible passage, 84 definitions

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