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— English words —

• strain n. (Archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
• strain n. (Biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
• strain n. (Figurative) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
• strain n. (Music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem;…
• strain n. Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
• strain n. (Rare) A kind or sort (Of person etc.).
• strain n. (Obsolete) Treasure.
• strain n. (Obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
• strain v. (Obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
• strain v. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
• strain v. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
• strain v. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
• strain v. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (One’s senses, faculties etc.) beyond…
• strain v. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
• strain v. (Transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
• strain v. (Intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
• strain v. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
• strain v. To urge with importunity; to press.
• strain v. (Transitive) hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
• strain n. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
• strain n. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
• strain n. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
• strain n. (Uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering…
• strain n. (Obsolete) The track of a deer.
• strain v. (Obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with…
• Strain prop.n. A surname.
• S-train n. (Chiefly in German-speaking countries and Copenhagen, Denmark) A commuter rail/metro system (generally…

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Romanian
  • străin adj. Foreign, strange.
  • străin n. Foreigner, alien.
  • Străin prop.n. A surname.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• strain n. Belasting, spanning, uitrekking.
• strain n. Stam, ras.
• strain w. Zeven, passeren.
• strain w. Rekken, een trekspanning aanleggen.
• strain w. Belasten, aan een belasting onderwerpen.

— English words, defined in French —

• strain n. Stress, tension.
• strain n. (Strained muscle) Muscle froissé.
• strain n. (Botanique) Variété (de plantes).
• strain n. (Biologie) Souche (De bactérie, ...).
• strain n. (Mécanique, Physique) Déformation élastique ou plastique (déformation d’un matériau).
• strain v. Passer dans une passoire.
• strain v. Se froisser un muscle.
• strain v. Peiner ; faire tout son effort ; tendre les oreilles, tous les muscles, ....
• strain v. S’infiltrer.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• strain s. Tensión.
• strain s. Presión.
• strain s. Esfuerzo.
• strain s. Esguince.
• strain s. Distensión.
• strain s. Cepa.
• strain s. Compás.
• strain s. Saturación.
• strain s. Raza.
• strain v. Llevar al límite.
• strain v. Deteriorarse.
• strain v. Forzar.
• strain v. Distenderse.
• strain v. Colmar.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• strain s. Pressão excessiva.
• strain s. Tendência, disposição.
• strain s. Variedade, raça.
• strain v. Fazer força.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• strain s. (Meccanica) deformazione.
• strain s. Aggravio, fatica.

175 English words from 30 English definitions

act act␣upon alien and animals any any␣way apparent apply Archaic as␣of as␣to beam beget being bending beyond Biology blood blood␣vessel both cause change character Chiefly clasp colander commuter commuter␣rail constrain Copenhagen copulate countries damage deer deformation Denmark dimensionless disposition distinct do␣violence␣to drawing effort egg either eloquent engender engineering especially etc excessive exert exertion faculties Figurative filtered force forces Foreign Foreigner form from generally generate German heightened Hereditary hold hug humans hurtful importunity infraspecific injury intent in␣terms␣of Intransitive its kind Language lie lie␣with light limit lineage liquid make meaning measure metro microbe movement muscles Music note object Obsolete ode of␣a of␣an one organism other otherwise out particular passing pedigree percolate person poem poetic poetry portion press produce proper quality Race rail Rare referring resulting senses separate so␣as so␣as␣to solid somebody something song sort speaking sprain state state␣of␣being strained strainer straining strange stretch stretching stretching␣out struggle surname sustained system taxonomically tendency tension terms that that␣is the through tightly track Transitive Treasure Uncountable uneasy unnatural upon urge usually variety vessel violence violent virus volume way when with yolk

21 English words from 34 foreign definitions

Colmar dans een effort faire les muscle muscles Passer Physique plastique ras Raza son spanning Stam Strained Stress tendre tension tout

53 foreign words from 34 foreign definitions

aan aanleggen Aggravio bactérie Belasten belasting Biologie Botanique Cepa Compás déformation deformazione Deteriorarse disposição Distenderse Distensión élastique Esfuerzo Esguince excessiva fatica Fazer força Forzar froissé froisser infiltrer límite Llevar matériau Mécanique Meccanica onderwerpen oreilles passeren passoire Peiner plantes Presión Pressão raça Rekken Saturación Se␣froisser Souche Tendência Tensión tous uitrekking une Variedade Variété Zeven

50 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

strains Strains S-trains straint strained strainer strainers strainest straineth strainful straining strainable strainably strainedly strainings strainless strainrate strain␣rate strainsome strain␣burst strain␣gauge strainingly strainmeter strainproof strainrates strain␣rates strain␣a␣point strain␣bursts strainedness strain␣energy strainerless strainer␣post strain␣gauges strainlessly strainmeters strainometer straintronic strain␣at␣a␣gnat strainer␣posts straining␣beam strainometers straintronics strain␣courtesy strain␣energies straining␣beams straining␣piece strainlessness strained␣silicon straining␣pieces strain␣every␣nerve

184 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

distrains distraint mistrains postrainy restrains restraint unstrains upstrains constrains constraint distrained distrainee distrainer distrainor distraints eyestrains first␣rains mistrained outstrains restrained restrainer restraints substrains unstrained upstrained constrained constrainer constraints cross-trains distrainees distrainers distraineth distraining distrainors goods␣trains mistraining nonstrained outstrained overstrains prestrained restrainers restrainest restraineth restraining serostrains tea␣strainer true␣strains unrestrains unrestraint unstraining +134 words

46 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

astrain distrain mistrain restrain unstrain upstrain constrain eyestrain eye-strain first␣rain isostrain outstrain substrain cross-train goods␣train overstrain serostrain true␣strain unrestrain withstrain broodstrain coconstrain delta␣strain Delta␣strain eigenstrain interstrain intrastrain macrostrain microstrain multistrain multi-strain superstrain unconstrain yield␣strain express␣train overrestrain counterstrain oblique␣strain overconstrain tensile␣strain underrestrain breaking␣strain Andromeda␣strain engineering␣strain van␣der␣Waals␣strain transannular␣strain

16 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Ain AIN ain' rai Rai raï rain Rain str STR str. stra. tra TRA train Train

16 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

art Art ART 'art art. arts Arts ARTS arts. IAR nia Nia NIA rts RTs RTS

12 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

atrins instar rinsta santir sartin Sartin starin' tairns tarins Tarins trains Trains

111 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Andrist anestri antiars antsier aroints artisan astrain atrines Briants brisant carnist crastin erastin Garstin Gartins gastrin gratins Hartins indarts instars in␣tears intrans. intraps intrays in-trays Iranist Istrian kintars kirtans martins Martins narcist nastier Niharts Nirosta nutrias Partins patrins Pintars priants qintars rainest rantish Rantism ratinés ratings rations ratlins ratskin Reitans +61 words

79 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

airns airnt airts antis arist arnis Artin Astin astir atrin Insta insta- intra- ISTAR Nairs naits naris Nasir nasri Natsi NRTIs rains Rains ranis ranst Ranst rants ratis riant riats Risan Ritas Ritsa saint Saint Santi sarin Sarin Sarti satin sat␣in Sinta sirna siRNA sitar Sitar snart snirt stain stair Stair starn stian stria tairn tairs Tanis tarin Tarin tarns tarsi tians Tians tiars Tiran tisan tisar train Train trans Trans trans* trans- trans. trian Trias Trina trnas tRNAs

6 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

sprain straik strait Strait strawn Strawn

3 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

stain train Train

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