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- descended from a strain of Irish seafarers
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- the strain of an old Irish ballad rose up from the revelers downstairs
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- detected a strain of panic in her voice when she asked if the substance was poisonous
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- ace,
- bit,
- crumb,
- dab,
- dram,
- driblet,
- glimmer,
- hint,
- lick,
- little,
- mite,
- nip,
- ounce,
- particle,
- peanuts,
- ray,
- scintilla,
- scruple,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shred,
- skosh,
- smack,
- smell,
- smidgen
- (also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge),
- snap,
- soupçon,
- spark,
- spatter,
- speck,
- splash,
- spot,
- sprinkling,
- streak,
- suspicion,
- tad,
- touch,
- trace
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- 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
- writes mystery novels of a more sophisticated strain
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noun (2)Synonyms & Antonyms of strain (Entry 2 of 3)
- the family's constant moving is putting a real strain on the children
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of strain (Entry 3 of 3)
- in order to lift something heavy, squat down and lift with your legs, or you'll strain your back
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- the whole department is straining to complete the project before the deadline
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- bum,
- chill,
- dally,
- dillydally,
- footle,
- goldbrick,
- goof (off),
- hack (around),
- hang (around or out),
- idle,
- laze,
- loaf,
- lounge,
- shirk,
- slack (off),
- veg out
- 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
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- strained her memory but the name just wouldn't come to her
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- the woman tenderly strained to her breast the child that she had long ago given up for dead
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“Strain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strain. Accessed 15 Aug. 2022.
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