| • | Race; stock; generation; descent; family. |
| • | Hereditary character, quality, or disposition. |
| • | Rank; a sort. |
| • | To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to
stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to
strain the cords of a musical instrument. |
| • | To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or
volume, as forces on a beam to bend it. |
| • | To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously. |
| • | To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in
the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to
convict an accused person. |
| • | To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force;
as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship. |
| • | To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too
strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a
horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle. |
| • | To squeeze; to press closely. |
| • | To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent
effort; to force; to constrain. |
| • | To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a
petition or invitation. |
| • | To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through
a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate
from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to
strain milk through cloth. |
| • | To make violent efforts. |
| • | To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining
through a sandy soil. |
| • | The act of straining, or the state of being strained. |
| • | A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or
tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the
strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury
resulting; a sprain. |
| • | A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass,
produced by a stress. |
| • | A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete
musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a
movement. |
| • | 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, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a
course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was
a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his
career. |
| • | Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain. |
Here is the answer for the: To make an effort that causes tension Word Craze. This Word Craze clue was last seen on September 18 2024 Word Craze Daily Mini puzzle. The answer we have for To make an effort that causes tension has a total of 6 letters.