Strained
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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.
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Strained Quotations
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Henry David Thoreau
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
Gary Cole
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
Robert Rainy
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.
Joseph Howe
If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.
Mark Dayton
Strained Translations
strained in Afrikaans is strak, gespanne
strained in Dutch is strak, geforceerd, gespannen
strained in German is angespannt, spannte an, angestrengt
strained in Latin is contentus
strained in Portuguese is esticado
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