Clues for the word "STRAIN"
We've had 136 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 190 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on April 10, 2024.
Definition of strain
- n. - Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
- n. - Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
- n. - Rank; a sort.
- a. - To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument.
- a. - To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.
- a. - To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.
- a. - To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.
- a. - To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.
- a. - To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.
- a. - To squeeze; to press closely.
- a. - To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- a. - To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.
- 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.
- v. i. - To make violent efforts.
- v. i. - To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.
- n. - The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- n. - A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.
- n. - A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress.
- 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.
- n. - Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career.
- n. - Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain.
Referring Clues
- Push beyond limits
- Back problem
- Muscle problem
- Cause of muscle ache
- Virus variety
- Lineage
- Considerable effort
- Use a sieve
- Variety
- Group of viruses
- Flu type
- Pour through a sieve
- Eye or back problem
- Turn to mush
- Exert
- Muscle injury
- Overexertion
- Prepare food for the baby
- Run through a sieve
- Variant
- Muscle woe
- Back or eye problem
- Bloodline
- Filter
- Tune
- Stress
- Sports injury
- Stretch to the limit
- Stretch to the limit
- Overexert
- Pressure
- Ancestry
- Exertion
- Sift
- Overstretch
- Athlete's injury
- Try hard
- Overtax
- Muscle malady
- Result of heavy moving
- Try too hard
- Muscle overexertion
- Change in length divided by original length
- Tension
- Eye or muscle problem
- Wrench
- Cause of back spasms
- Cause of collapse
- Exert to the utmost
- Intense or violent effort
- Cannabis variety
- The Fixx felt "The ___"
- Pressure - filter
- Second series for Melody
- Kind, good person drops wrench
- Make an effort to find the ancestral line
- Sieve
- Dishonour grips royal family
- Air pressure
- Make a great effort to find the ancestry
- Make an effort in race
- Rick will do everything possible
- Tension - tune
- Notes the great effort
- Strive to get variety
- Great effort - sieve
- Endeavour to get a wrench
- Try hard to find a vein
- Stretch tight
- Have difficulty in expressing The Sound of Music
- Anxiety in the family
- Tension - stock
- Overwork Bob's followers
- Muscle injury - tension
- Separate tax
- Make great effort in race
- A race calling for tremendous effort
- Filter - intense effort
- Descending line in melody
- Stress in music
- Stock melody
- Overwork - melody
- Pull (a muscle?)
- Music suggesting bad weather's on the way
- Make the utmost effort in variety
- See 18
- Family stress
- The S of RSI
- Racial tension?
- Stress injury
- Aspect of character first seen in Sunday school
- Try hard to produce melody
- Race demands big effort
- A number work very hard
- Type of express, perhaps, chasing its tail
- Variety of music filter
- Street water filter
- Type of injury
- The way wet weather causes tension
- Try hard to type
- Paintings returned by popular demand
- Family's caravan
- Work in arts is random
- Trace line of ancestry
- Sieve in stock
- Mark captures rook, resulting in stress
- Purify the race
- Tension in the air
- Variety music
- Stress the melody
- Get the lumps out of
- Put through a sieve
- Stress it runs in the family
- Twist to the music
- Make an effort in special school
- Push the limits
- Separate by sifting
- Do your utmost and find a line of descent
- Variation
- The tension shows in the music
- Tax
- With one's ancestry, overdo things
- Air filter
- For the family, make an effort
- Make an effort to find your ancestry
- Is tracing it hard work for genealogists?
- Filter, at most, half the water
- Do your utmost to get variety
- Overextend oneself
- Pasta instruction
- Twist music
- Go all out
- Distinct melodic segment
- Use a colander
- Genetic variant
- Variety of cannabis
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - April 10, 2024
- Your Life Choices - April 10, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - March 25, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 26, 2024
- LA Times - January 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 29, 2023
- Mirror Daily - December 21, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 24, 2023
- USA Today - September 25, 2023
- LA Times - August 29, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 25, 2023
- USA Today - August 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 28, 2023
- Mirror Daily - July 25, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 21, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 07, 2023
- Your Life Choices - July 05, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - June 24, 2023
- Daily Quick - June 22, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - May 08, 2023
- Your Life Choices - May 06, 2023
- USA Today - April 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - April 11, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - March 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 03, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 03, 2023
- Mirror Daily - January 06, 2023
- Daily Quick - January 06, 2023
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