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STRAIN

6 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

STRAIN is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

STRAINS-s 5 STRAINING-ing 11 STRAINED-ed 11

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STRAINEDLY 11 STRAININGS 11
noun
  1. archaicRace; lineage, pedigree.
  2. A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
    • They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.
  3. figurativelyHereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
    • There is a strain of madness in her family.
  4. 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, etc.
  5. Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
  6. rareA kind or sort (of person etc.).
  7. obsoleteTreasure.
  8. obsoleteThe blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
  9. countableuncountableThe act of straining, or the state of being strained.
  10. countableuncountableA violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
    • he jumped up with a strain
    • the strain upon the sailboat's rigging
  11. countableuncountableAn injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
  12. uncountableA dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
  13. countableobsoleteuncountableThe track of a deer.
verb
  1. obsoletetransitiveTo hold tightly, to clasp.
  2. transitiveTo apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
    • to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship
    • Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
  3. transitiveTo damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
    • The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
  4. transitiveTo act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
  5. ambitransitiveTo exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
    • Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
  6. transitiveTo stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
    • to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
  7. transitiveTo separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
  8. intransitiveTo percolate; to be filtered.
    • water straining through a sandy soil
  9. transitiveTo make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
  10. transitiveTo urge with importunity; to press.
    • to strain a petition or invitation
  11. transitiveTo hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
  12. obsoleteTo beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.
    • A man straineth, liveth, then dieth.
    • Man, look at that cat straining that kitty.