Words and phrases that have a meaning related to straining: (124 results)
Often used in the same context:
stretched, squeezing, hurting, aggravating, overstrained, creaking, fraying, dislocating, bulging, hobbling, aching, draining, flexing, swollen, sapping, struggling, overstretching, exacerbating, fractured, shrinking, groaning, snapping, bruised, tugging, burdening, constricting, overburdened, diminishing, bolstering, overtaxed, disintegrating, crippling, wrenched, bursting, loosened, spraining, rupturing, overstraining, bothering, jeopardizing, crumbling, collapsing, fretting, pinched, eroding, yawning, tearing, hampering, limping, depleting, inflamed, spilling, tapping, heaving, slipping, dorsi, denting, boosting, twinged, teres major, hyperextend, throbbing, scrambling, crimping, rhomboid muscle, strapped, sustaining, tensing, imploding, undermining, tightened, laboring, nudging, sundering, humming, injuring, chafing, ballooning, roiling, souring, mending, needing, damaging, gripping, weakened, stiffening, complicating, pulling, jammed, teetering, lengthening, cranking, bending, wringing, wobbling, sweating, lacerated, sags, surging, burgeoning, imperilling, sucking
More general:
effort, elbow grease, exertion, falsehood, falsification, misrepresentation, sweat, travail
Synonyms:
Also try:arduous, distortion, effortful, overrefinement, strenuous, stress, torture, twisting
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