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- Dictionarystrained/streɪnd/
adjective
- 1. showing signs of nervous tension or tiredness: "Jean's pale, strained face" Similar
- 2. (of a limb or muscle) injured by overexertion or twisting.
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nervous, worried, or having problems: She had a strained expression on her face.
The meaning of STRAINED is done or produced with excessive effort. How to use strained in a sentence.
Strained definition: affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced. See examples of STRAINED used in a sentence.
strained. (streɪnd) 1.adjective. If someone's appearance, voice, or behaviour is strained, they seem worried and nervous. She looked a little pale and strained. Gil sensed something wrong from her father's strained voice. His laughter seemed a little strained. Synonyms: forced, put on, false, artificial More Synonyms of strained. 2.adjective.
a force or influence that stretches, pulls, or puts pressure on something, sometimes causing damage: put a strain onThe hurricane put such a strain on the bridge that it collapsed. As you get older, excess weight puts a lot of strain on the heart. Their constant arguments were putting a strain on their marriage.
1. Having been passed through a strainer: a bowl of strained peaches. 2. Done with or marked by excessive effort; forced: strained humor. 3. Extended beyond proper limits: a strained meaning. 4. Antagonized to the verge of open conflict: strained relations. 5. Twisted; wrenched: a strained ankle.
Definition of strained adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
a. : lineage, ancestry. b. : a group of presumed common ancestry with clear-cut physiological but usually not morphological distinctions. a high-yielding strain of winter wheat. broadly : a specified infraspecific group (such as a stock, line, or ecotype) c. : kind, sort.
Definitions of strained. adjective. lacking natural ease. synonyms: labored, laboured, stilted. awkward. lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance. adjective. lacking spontaneity; not natural. “a strained smile” synonyms: constrained, forced. affected, unnatural. speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression.
Strain, sprain imply a wrenching, twisting, and stretching of muscles and tendons. To strain is to stretch tightly, make taut, wrench, tear, cause injury to, by long-continued or sudden and too violent effort or movement: to strain one's heart by overexertion, one's eyes by reading small print.
