Strained is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRAINED in dictionary:

VERB:
• STRAIN, to exert to the utmost
ADJECTIVE:
• showing signs of nervous tension or tiredness
• not relaxed or comfortable; tense or uneasy
• produced by deliberate effort rather than spontaneously; artificial or forced
• far-fetched; laboured
• (of a limb or muscle) injured by overexertion or twisting.
• (of a mainly liquid substance) having been strained to separate out any solid matter.
• not natural, forced
• Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends.
• Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
• lacking natural ease
• showing signs of mental and emotional tension
• lacking spontaneity; not natural
• struggling for effect

Words related to STRAINED

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Words that contain STRAINED

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How to use STRAINED in a sentence

• As the liquor is strained, measure it, to ascertain the proportion for the jelly, allowing something for the sediment and fat at the top.
• If not required very clear, it may be merely strained through a fine sieve, instead of being run through a bag.
• He strained Meleese to him, and when he looked down into her face he saw her beautiful eyes flooded with tears, and yet shining with a great joy.
• The glass of the loop was open, to admit the air, and Maud strained her sense of hearing, in the desire to catch, if possible, another tone of his voice.
• Though passion may have strained, do not allow it to break our bonds of affection.
• His face was drawn and strained, and the sweat rolled down his nose from his forehead.
• There are no strained relations in this hut, and nothing more emphatically evident than the universally amicable spirit which is shown on all occasions.
• Every nerve of the horses was strained as they dashed recklessly along the road.
• One of the forwards strained her finger slightly and was taken from the game.
• What was it that they, who feared neither God nor man, feared? They strained their eyes, looking into the passage that led darkly away into blackness.
• The agony of his strained thumbs was almost unbearable.
• As I supposed us to near the French coast, I strained my eyes to obtain an early glimpse of something in the shape of cliff or jettie.
• In a space the size of a hall bedroom half a score of men stood in attitudes of strained expectancy, staring into the blackness through the loopholes in their steel shields.
• As the train passed the boy, Mary, gazing out of the corridor window, looked straight down the deep round tunnel that was his open mouth, and caught his strained eye.
• I strained my ears and eyes to catch every exclamation.
• Teams strained at heavy loads of gravel and cement.
• Wrestling, and still the noise rose! And still he strained in vain, back and sinew, strained until with a cry of despair he found that he could not win.
• In this and many similar cases in which the design and text are used for old or elderly people, they have been certainly strained from their true significance.
• For ten minutes we strained our eyes into the dense foliage hoping to catch a glimpse of a swaying branch.
• He was a good forty yards away from me at that time, but I could see the strained, anxious expression on his face.
• On the other hand, he learned that Henry Muir was barely holding his own, and that he had strained his credit dangerously to do this.
• But Fred, after a few moments of strained listening, decided to take the chance.
• But when he set his spear in the rest and tried his armour, the horse bounded and leapt beneath him, so that Sir Lancelot strained to keep him back.
• The strained condition of his nerves caused him a fatigue which was far more intolerable than the physical weariness of the journey and the road.

Similar words containing STRAIN without suffix ed

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