Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To overstrain, or stretch unduly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To overstrain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
strain (of a disease etc.) that comprehends severalsubstrains . - verb obsolete To
overstrain .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Molecular analysis revealed that the pandemic was not uniform; one superstrain of MRSA had not evolved in an unknown place and rolled like a plague across the globe.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Molecular analysis revealed that the pandemic was not uniform; one superstrain of MRSA had not evolved in an unknown place and rolled like a plague across the globe.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Molecular analysis revealed that the pandemic was not uniform; one superstrain of MRSA had not evolved in an unknown place and rolled like a plague across the globe.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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There's been a lot of talk about a new "patient zero" in New York and a possible superstrain of the virus.
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Way down at the bottom, drawing conclusions from an unidentified study mentioned offhand in an article about a “superstrain” of HIV–an article largely debunked because the superstrain turned out not to be so super and the feared wave of superinfections never happened–THAT is supposed to be convincing to anyone?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Word I Will Gladly Continue To Use: 2007
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