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Crossword-Solution: STRAIN 6 letters, 180 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Strain n. Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
Strain n. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
Strain n. Rank; a sort.
Strain a. To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to
stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to
strain the cords of a musical instrument.
Strain a. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or
volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.
Strain a. To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.
Strain a. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in
the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to
convict an accused person.
Strain a. To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force;
as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.
Strain a. To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too
strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a
horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.
Strain a. To squeeze; to press closely.
Strain a. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent
effort; to force; to constrain.
Strain a. To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a
petition or invitation.
Strain a. To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through
a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate
from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to
strain milk through cloth.
Strain v. i. To make violent efforts.
Strain v. i. To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining
through a sandy soil.
Strain n. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
Strain n. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or
tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the
strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury
resulting; a sprain.
Strain n. A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass,
produced by a stress.
Strain n. A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete
musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a
movement.
Strain n. Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion
of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a
song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a
course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was
a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his
career.
Strain n. Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
STRAIN anagram INSTAR, RINSTA, SANTIR, STARIN, TRAINS

We have 180 clues for the answer “STRAIN”

Clue Answers
Air, or pressure 1 answer
Back or eye problem 1 answer
Cause of back spasms 1 answer
Cause of collapse 1 answer
Cause of muscle ache 1 answer
Change in length divided by original length 1 answer
Distinct melodic segment 1 answer
Exert to the utmost 1 answer
Eye or back problem 1 answer
Eye or muscle problem 1 answer
Group of viruses 1 answer
Inherited tendency. 1 answer
Melody, tune 1 answer
Muscle overexertion 1 answer
Participate in a tug of war 1 answer
Passage of music or song. 1 answer
Passage of music. 1 answer
Pasta instruction 1 answer
Pervading note. 1 answer
Pour through a sieve 1 answer
Prepare food for the baby 1 answer
Pressure; filter 1 answer
Push beyond limits 1 answer
Push the limits 1 answer
Push to the limits 1 answer
Put in a colander 1 answer
Result of heavy moving 1 answer
Result of overuse of eyes 1 answer
STRETCH, EFFORT, OR EXPRESSION 1 answer
Sativa or indica 1 answer
Sativa, for one 1 answer
Stretch, effort or exertion 1 answer
Stretch, stress 1 answer
Taxing demand 1 answer
The Fixx felt "The ___" 1 answer
Try harder 1 answer
Tune or air. 1 answer
Use a Sieve bottom 1 answer
Use a sieve or cheesecloth 1 answer
Virus variety 1 answer
Way wet weather produces stress 1 answer
___ at a gnat 1 answer
family tendency 1 answer
subject to mental tension 1 answer
Genetic variant 2 answers
INTENSE effort 2 answers
ADD a meaning 2 answers
Overstretch 2 answers
Go beyond the limit 2 answers
Great effort 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STRAIN (5)

This—though doubtless it might acquire additional force and volume from the child-like loyalty which the age awarded to its rulers—was felt to be an irrepressible outburst of enthusiasm kindled in the auditors by that high strain of eloquence which was yet reverberating in their ears.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
The `jet lag' that afflicts travelers who cross many time-zone boundaries may be attributed to two distinct causes: the strain of travel per se, and the strain of changing phase.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and the loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company, practising for solitude, sobering their minds in the man’s rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992
Both Peter Kronborg and his sister Tillie were more like the Norwegian root of the family than like the Swedish, and this same Norwegian strain was strong in Thea, though in her it took a very different character.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
When this strain of music sounded, all the things that Ghost had shown him, came upon his mind; he softened more and more; and thought that if he could have listened to it often, years ago, he might have cultivated the kindnesses of life for his own happiness with his own hands, without resorting to the sexton's spade that buried Jacob Marley.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992

Quotes with STRAIN (3)

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Wrath held her even closer, right to his beating chest. “. . . a son?” “Yes. A son.” All of a sudden, he felt the biggest, widest, happiest grin hit his face, the g*dd*mn thing stretching his cheeks until they hurt, making his eyes water from the strain, pulling at his temples until they burned. And the joy wasn’t just on his puss. A flush so great it burned him alive flooded through his body, cleansing him in places he didn’t know were dirty, washing out cobwebs that had cre…
J.R. Ward The King
When I throw back my head and howl People (women mostly) say But you've always done what you want, You always get your way- A perfectly vile and foul Inversion of all that's been. What the old ratbags mean Is I've never done what I don't.So the shit in the shuttered chateau Who does his five hundred words Then parts out the rest of the day Between bathing and booze and birds Is far off as ever, but so Is that spectacled schoolteaching sod(Six kids, and the wife in pod, And he…
Philip Larkin Philip Larkin Poetry
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 103 times in crossword archives (1946–2024).