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strain
Synonyms and Antonyms of strain
- descended from a strain of Irish seafarers
- the strain of an old Irish ballad rose up from the revelers downstairs
- detected a strain of panic in her voice when she asked if the substance was poisonous
abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, oodles, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, wad, wealth
bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus
- writes mystery novels of a more sophisticated strain
strain
Synonyms and Antonyms of strain
- the family's constant moving is putting a real strain on the children
strain
Synonyms and Antonyms of strain
- in order to lift something heavy, squat down and lift with your legs, or you'll strain your back
- the whole department is straining to complete the project before the deadline
break, ease (up), let up, slacken
bum, chill, dally, dillydally, footle, goldbrick, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), idle, laze, loaf, lounge, shirk, slack (off), veg out
bask, loll, relax, repose, rest, unwind
dabble, doodle, fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang, hang about [British], mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle
- put the cooked fruit in a cheesecloth bag and let the juice strain into a pan
- strained her memory but the name just wouldn't come to her
- the woman tenderly strained to her breast the child that she had long ago given up for dead
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