strain
/stɹeɪn/ noun C2- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles. · he jumped up with a strain· the strain upon the sailboat's rigging
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
Plural strains
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Well, am I to rush into his arms, and strain him to my heart, crying, ‘My father, my father!’ like Monsieur Pixérécourt.”
It had also been noted and commented upon by a few observant people that there were signs sometimes of some nerve-strain upon the part of Mrs.
“Do you know, Villefort, that you are talking in a most dreadfully revolutionary strain?
Not so much bodily exertion, you understand, as the strain upon the mind.
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