Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to strain
Participle: strained
Gerund: straining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | strain |
| you | strain |
| he;she;it | strains |
| we | strain |
| you | strain |
| they | strain |
Perfect
| I | have strained |
| you | have strained |
| he;she;it | has strained |
| we | have strained |
| you | have strained |
| they | have strained |
Past
| I | strained |
| you | strained |
| he;she;it | strained |
| we | strained |
| you | strained |
| they | strained |
Pluperfect
| I | had strained |
| you | had strained |
| he;she;it | had strained |
| we | had strained |
| you | had strained |
| they | had strained |
Future
| I | will strain |
| you | will strain |
| he;she;it | will strain |
| we | will strain |
| you | will strain |
| they | will strain |
Future Perfect
| I | will have strained |
| you | will have strained |
| he;she;it | will have strained |
| we | will have strained |
| you | will have strained |
| they | will have strained |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | strain |
| you | strain |
| he;she;it | strain |
| we | strain |
| you | strain |
| they | strain |
Perfect
| I | have strained |
| you | have strained |
| he;she;it | have strained |
| we | have strained |
| you | have strained |
| they | have strained |
Imperfect
| I | strained |
| you | strained |
| he;she;it | strained |
| we | strained |
| you | strained |
| they | strained |
Pluperfect
| I | had strained |
| you | had strained |
| he;she;it | had strained |
| we | had strained |
| you | had strained |
| they | had strained |
Conditional
Present
| I | would strain |
| you | would strain |
| he;she;it | would strain |
| we | would strain |
| you | would strain |
| they | would strain |
Perfect
| I | would have strained |
| you | would have strained |
| he;she;it | would have strained |
| we | would have strained |
| you | would have strained |
| they | would have strained |
Imperative
| you | strain |
| we | Let's strain |
| you | strain |
Verbs conjugated like 'strain'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'strain'
sprain,
stain,
strait,
train,
attain,
berain,
brain,
derain,
detrain,
distrain,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English straynen, streinen, streynen, from Old French estreindre (whence French étreindre (“to grip”)), from Latin stringō (“to draw tight together, to tie”). See: Old French '
estreindre', French '
étreindre', Latin '
stringō'.
Verbs referencing "strain"
Tok Pisin strenim, German, old spelling
streunen.
Sample Sentences
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Still she thought she heard the trader make an offer for her boy; — could she be mistaken ? Her heart swelled and throbbed, and she involuntarily strained him so tight that the little fellow looked up into her face in astonishment.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] the pier: all more bright and gay and fresh to our unused eyes than words can paint them. We came to a wharf, paved with uplifted faces; got alongside, and were made fast, after some shouting and straining of cables; darted, a score of us along the gangway, almost as soon as it was thrust out to meet us, and before it had reached the ship—and leaped upon the firm glad earth again !
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The indescribable interest with which I strained my eyes, as the first patches of American soil peeped like molehills from the green sea, and followed them, as they swelled, by slow and almost imperceptible degrees, into a continuous line of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] boy was old enough to have walked by her side, and, in an indifferent case, she would only have led him by the hand; but now the bare thought of putting him out of her arms made her shudder, and she strained him to her bosom with a convulsive grasp, as she went rapidly forward.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] nose quite unceremoniously, and he considers himself fairly extinguished; — child cries, and Cudjoe on the outside delivers animated addresses to the horses, who are kicking, and floundering, and straining under repeated cracks of the whip. Carriage springs up, with another bounce,—down go the hind wheels,—senator, woman, and child, fly over on to the back seat, his elbows encountering her bonnet, and [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] stone had fallen on it. Her baby raised himself up against her, and stroked her cheeks with his little hands; and, springing up and down, crowing and chatting, seemed determined to arouse her. She strained him suddenly and tightly in her arms, and slowly one tear after another fell on his wondering, unconscious face; and gradually she seemed, and little by little, to grow calmer, and busied herself [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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It was a miserable day; chilly and raw; a damp mist falling; and the trees in that northern region quite bare and wintry. Whenever the train halted, I listened for the roar; and was constantly straining my eyes in the direction where I knew the Falls must be, from seeing the river rolling on towards them; every moment expecting to behold the spray. Within a few minutes of our stopping, not before, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] in that matter. To have a great gang of seven hundred, whom I could not know personally, or feel any individual interest in, bought and driven, housed, fed, worked like so many horned cattle, strained up to military precision,—the question of how little of life's commonest enjoyments would keep them in working order being a constantly recurring problem,—the necessity of drivers and overseers,—the [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] that comes with it. Tom no longer wondered at the habitual surliness of his associates; nay, he found the placid, sunny temper, which had been the habitude of his life, broken in on, and sorely strained, by the inroads of the same thing. He had flattered himself on leisure to read his Bible; but there was no such thing as leisure there. In the height of the season, Legree did not hesitate to press [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Mrs. Shelby ran to the entry door, and was folded in the arms of her son. Aunt Chloe stood anxiously straining her eyes out into the darkness.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)