straining English

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What does straining mean?

straining

— noun (= strain) an intense or violent exertion

— adjective (= arduous, strenuous) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance his final, straining burst of speed a strenuous task your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here — F.D.Roosevelt

— noun (= distortion) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

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straining English » English

filtering

strain

twisting

torture

strenuous

overrefinement

draining

distortion

arduous

screening

exertion

endeavour

wearing

vexing

twist

troubling

tiring

tiresome

tenesmus

struggle

stretching

sophistication

refining

perversion

painful

onerous

nisus

kick up

intensification

intense

heavy

gruelling

filtration

falsification

endeavor

effort

drying

deformation

cumbersome

clarification

busy

be bursting

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