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Noun straining has 2 senses

• straining(n = noun.act) strain - an intense or violent exertion; Array
is a kind of effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail
Derived form verb strain₃

• straining(n = noun.act) distortion, overrefinement, torture, twisting - the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean; Array
is a kind of falsification, misrepresentation

Adjective straining has 1 sense

• straining(s = adj.all) arduous, strenuous - taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"

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THESAURUS

straining

bloat, bloating, bolting, breaking point, cautious, clarification, colature, coloring, confabulation, corruption, demurring, destructive distillation, diffident, distension, distillation, distortion, draining, drudging, edulcoration, effusion, elution, elutriation, equivocation, essentialization, exaggeration, excretion, exfiltration, exhausting, extraction, extravasation, extreme tension, exudation, false coloring, false swearing, falsification, falsifying, faltering, fatiguesome, fatiguing, filtering, filtration, grinding, grubbing, grueling, hardworking, haul, heave, hesitant, hesitating, inflation, jibbing, killing, laboring, leaching, lixiviation, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdirection, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, misstatement, misuse, ooze, oozing, overdistension, overdrawing, overexertion, overexpansion, overextension, overstrain, overstraining, overstress, overstretching, overtaxing, pegging, percolating, percolation, perjury, perversion, plodding, plugging, prevarication, pull, punishing, purification, rack, refinement, riddling, screening, scrupling, seep, seepage, separation, shilly-shallying, sieving, sifting, slanting, slaving, slogging, snapping point, spiritualization, sticking, stickling, strain, stress, stress and strain, stressful, stressfulness, stretch, stretching, striving, struggling, sublimation, sweating, swelling, taxing, tension, tentative, timid, tiresome, tiring, toiling, toilsome, torturing, transudation, trying, tug, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, weep, weeping, winnowing, working

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