straining
noun B2- The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc)
- filtering, the process of passing something through a strainer.
Plural strainings
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See the foxhound with hanging ears and drooping tail as it lolls about the kennels, and compare it with the same hound as, with gleaming eyes and straining muscles, it runs upon a breast-high scent—such was the change in Holmes since the morning.
It will be better for you than straining your eyes over that book.
For half an hour I sat with straining ears.
His arm was round her, but it seemed to me that she was straining away from him with her face averted.
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