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Definition of strain

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Strain (a.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth..

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Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To limit; to confine; to restrict.

Constrain :: Constrain (v. t.) To violate; to ravish.

Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation..

Hold :: Hold (n. i.) To restrain one's self; to refrain.

Hog :: Hog (v. i.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form..

Refrain :: Refrain (v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.

Obligate :: Obligate (v. t.) To bind or firmly hold to an act; to compel; to constrain; to bind to any act of duty or courtesy by a formal pledge.

Titter :: Titter (n.) A restrained laugh.

Stint :: Stint (v. t.) Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

Circumscribe :: Circumscribe (v. t.) To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.

Gavot :: Gavot (n.) A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over..

Mot :: Mot (n.) A note or brief strain on a bugle.

Check :: Check (v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint.

Unmoralized :: Unmoralized (a.) Not restrained or tutored by morality.

Cadence :: Cadence (n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord..

Fit :: Fit (n.) In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus..

Runaway :: Runaway (a.) Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse..

Strain :: Strain (n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement..

Bridle :: Bridle (n.) A restraint; a curb; a check.

Abandonedly :: Abandonedly (adv.) Unrestrainedly.