Crossword-Solution: STRAINED
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Strained | imp. & p. p. | of Strain |
| Strained | a. | Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. |
| Strained | a. | Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STRAINED | anagram | DETRAINS, RANDIEST, TRADEINS, TRADESIN |
We have 31 clues for the answer “STRAINED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| showing signs of mental and emotional tension | 1 answer |
| put under stress | 1 answer |
| Under great tension | 1 answer |
| Tense, as relations | 1 answer |
| Taxed to the utmost | 1 answer |
| Prepared baby food | 1 answer |
| Material commonly used during cathedral construction | 1 answer |
| Like most baby food | 1 answer |
| Like less-than-ideal relations | 1 answer |
| Like a baby's peas | 1 answer |
| Exerted great effort | 1 answer |
| Emulated Sisyphus, in a way | 1 answer |
| Done with excessive effort | 1 answer |
| Applied elbow grease | 2 answers |
| Exerted oneself | 2 answers |
| Hardly harmonious | 2 answers |
| Like much baby food | 2 answers |
| Not exactly friendly | 2 answers |
| Like some muscles and baby food | 2 answers |
| Like baby food | 3 answers |
| LIFTED with effort | 4 answers |
| Stretched to the limit | 4 answers |
| Like some relations | 5 answers |
| Put through a sieve | 6 answers |
| Filtered. | 6 answers |
| Taxed | 8 answers |
| labored | 9 answers |
| Taut | 18 answers |
| Not natural. | 18 answers |
| Up-tight | 23 answers |
| Tense | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ACZMEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with STRAINED (5)
Relations with foreign commercial banks remain strained because of mounting interest arrears on Brazil's long-term debt.
Her steps became feebler, and she strained her eyes to look afar upon the naked road, now indistinct amid the penumbræ of night.
The scum was absolutely insoluble, and it is a strange thing, seeing the instant effect of the gas, that one could drink without hurt the water from which it had been strained.
Half an hour from now, when I shall again and for ever re-indue that hated personality, I know how I shall sit shuddering and weeping in my chair, or continue, with the most strained and fear-struck ecstasy of listening, to pace up and down this room (my last earthly refuge) and give ear to every sound of menace.
Since March 1991, however, military incursions by Liberian rebels in southern and eastern Sierra Leone have severely strained the economy and have undermined efforts to institute economic reforms.
Quotes with STRAINED (3)
They were all fitting into place, the jig-saw pieces. The odd strained shapes that I had tried to piece together with my fumbling fingers and they had never fitted. Frank's odd manner when I spoke about Rebecca. Beatrice and her rather diffident negative attitude. The silence that I had always taken for sympathy and regret was a silence born of shame and embarrassment. It seemed incredible to me now that I had never understood. I wondered how many people there were in the wor…
Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.
Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1954–2023).