strain

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  1. transitive verb To pull, draw, or stretch tight: strained the sheets over the bed.
  2. transitive verb To exert or tax to the utmost: straining our ears to hear.
  3. transitive verb To injure or impair by overuse or overexertion; wrench: strain a muscle.
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  • Sometimes the strain was almost greater than she could bear. —  Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
  • Even if his motive for writing in this strain were a worthy motive, who is to assure us that he practised the generosity he preached? —  The Man Shakespeare
  • The influenza strain is an H1N1, the same family as one of the seasonal flu viruses now circulating. —  canada.com Top Stories
  • Center for Disease Control said the strain is a combination of viruses typical among pigs, birds and humans. —  KXAN TV
  • The region of the strain is the posterior part of the shoulder, and the affected muscles are those which occupy the space between the posterior border of the scapula and the posterior face of the arm. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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  1. Middle English streinen, from Old French estreindre, estrein-, to bind tightly, from Latin stringere; see streig- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English strene, from Old English strēon, something gained, progeny; see ster-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also strayne; from Middle English straynen, streinen, streynen, straynyen, from Old French streindre, estraindre, straindre, French étreindre = Provencal estrenher, estreigner = Italian strignere, stregnere, stringere, from Latin stringere, past participle strictus, draw tight; akin to Greek στραγγός, twisted, στραγγίζειν, press out, Lithuanian stregti, become stiff, freeze, Anglo-Saxon streccan, stretch, etc.: see stretch, straight. From Latin stringere are also ult. English constrain, distrain, restrain, stringent, strait, strict, etc.
  2. from strain, v. In some uses (def. 7), cf. strain.
  3. An altered form, due apparently to confusion with strain, 7, of what would be reg. streen; from Middle English streen, strene, stren, earlier streon, istreon, race, stock, generation, from Anglo-Saxon gestreón, gestrión, gain, wealth (= Old Saxon gistriuni, = Old High German gistriuni, gain, property, wealth, business); apparently confused in Middle English with the related noun, Middle English strend, strynd, strund, from Anglo-Saxon stry¯nd, race, stock; from streónan, stry¯nan = Old High German striunan, beget, gestreónan, get, acquire.
  4. An aphetic form of distrain.
 

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