straining

straining
Synonyms and related words:
bloat, bloating, bolting, breaking point, cautious, clarification, colature, coloring, confabulation, corruption, demurring, destructive distillation, diffident, distension, distillation, distortion, draining, drudging, edulcoration, effusion, elution, elutriation, equivocation, essentialization, exaggeration, excretion, exfiltration, exhausting, extraction, extravasation, extreme tension, exudation, false coloring, false swearing, falsification, falsifying, faltering, fatiguesome, fatiguing, filtering, filtration, grinding, grubbing, grueling, hardworking, haul, heave, hesitant, hesitating, inflation, jibbing, killing, laboring, leaching, lixiviation, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdirection, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, misstatement, misuse, ooze, oozing, overdistension, overdrawing, overexertion, overexpansion, overextension, overstrain, overstraining, overstress, overstretching, overtaxing, pegging, percolating, percolation, perjury, perversion, plodding, plugging, prevarication, pull, punishing, purification, rack, refinement, riddling, screening, scrupling, seep, seepage, separation, shilly-shallying, sieving, sifting, slanting, slaving, slogging, snapping point, spiritualization, sticking, stickling, strain, stress, stress and strain, stressful, stressfulness, stretch, stretching, striving, struggling, sublimation, sweating, swelling, taxing, tension, tentative, timid, tiresome, tiring, toiling, toilsome, torturing, transudation, trying, tug, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, weep, weeping, winnowing, working

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  • straining — I noun 1. an intense or violent exertion (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑strain • Derivationally related forms: ↑strain, ↑strenuous (for: ↑strain), ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • Straining piece — Straining Strain ing, a. & n. from {Strain}. [1913 Webster] {Straining piece} (Arch.), a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of {Queen post}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • straining piece — [strān′iŋ] n. a horizontal brace or beam connected at either end to opposite rafters in a roof truss: also straining beam …   English World dictionary

  • straining piece — noun see straining beam * * * (in a queen post roof) a horizontal beam uniting the tops of the two queen posts, and resisting the thrust of the roof. Also called straining beam. See diag. under queen post. [1795 1805] * * * straining beam or… …   Useful english dictionary

  • straining arch — noun or strainer arch Etymology: straining arch from straining (present participle of strain) (II) + arch; strainer arch from strainer + arch : a construction (as a flying buttress) that suggests an arch and is designed to resist end thrust * * * …   Useful english dictionary

  • straining beam — noun or straining piece : a short piece of timber in a truss used to hold in place the ends of struts or rafters * * * straining beam or straining piece, the horizontal timber or beam in a roof truss between the tops of two queen posts, which… …   Useful english dictionary

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