Definition of strain

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Strain (a.) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.

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Free Will :: Free will () The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.
Luxuriate :: Luxuriate (v. i.) To indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate in description..
Spontaneity :: Spontaneity (n.) The quality or state of being spontaneous, or acting from native feeling, proneness, or temperament, without constraint or external force..
Constrainer :: Constrainer (n.) One who constrains.
Distraint :: Distraint (n.) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.
Bit :: Bit (v.) Fig.: Anything which curbs or restrains.
Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain..
Refrain :: Refrain (v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
Overstrain :: Overstrain (v. i.) To strain one's self to excess.
Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed..
Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb..
Avowry :: Avowry (n.) The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right..
Obstriction :: Obstriction (n.) The state of being constrained, bound, or obliged; that which constrains or obliges; obligation; bond..
Counterbrace :: Counterbrace (v. t.) To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.
Muzzle :: Muzzle (v. t.) To bind the mouth of; to fasten the mouth of, so as to prevent biting or eating; hence, figuratively, to bind; to sheathe; to restrain from speech or action..
Free :: Free (superl.) Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
Strain :: Strain (n.) Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
Silence :: Silence (v. t.) To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel..
Revoke :: Revoke (v. t.) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
Licentiate :: Licentiate (n.) One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor..
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