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Word "STRAINED" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
lacking natural ease
Synonyms:
labored, laboured

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
struggling for effect
Synonyms:
agonistic

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
lacking spontaneity; not natural
Synonyms:
constrained, forced
Examples:
a constrained smile
a strained smile

Crossword Clues for STRAINED

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Overexerted
Side's opener practised under pressure (8)
Forced (humour) (8)
Used a sieve on Premier Sunday 18 Feb 2024
Put under pressure, Dan tries to reform (8)
Old Bob having worked out is injured
Anxious The Sun Two Speed 25 Nov 2023
Tense as tinder explodes The Sun Two Speed 25 Nov 2023
Like less-than-ideal relations Universal 22 Jan 2023
Artificial — as tinder (anag) The Guardian Quick 15 Aug 2022
'The quality of mercy is not ...' (The Merchant of Venice) Irish Times Simplex 04 May 2022
Put through a sieve Newsday 20 Feb 2022
Like most baby food USA Today 14 Oct 2021
Leader of sheep taught under pressure The Telegraph Toughie 21 Jul 2021
Before temperature fell, sun's unnatural
First two leaving subdued and tense
''The quality of mercy is not ...'' (The Merchant of Venice) Irish Times Simplex 13 Aug 2019
Tense as tinder explodes The Sun Two Speed 02 Mar 2019
Anxious The Sun Two Speed 02 Mar 2019
Stretched, extended to the limit Irish Times Simplex 30 Jan 2019
Awkward son taught The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Jan 2019
Not relaxed, having gone through a screening process The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Oct 2018
Showing signs of nervous tension The Telegraph General Knowledge 09 Sep 2018
Hardly harmonious The Washington Post 05 May 2018
Hardly harmonious LA Times Daily 05 May 2018
Like baby food Thomas Joseph 12 Feb 2018
Emulated Sisyphus, in a way
Hardly harmonious
Exerted great effort Premier Sunday 22 Oct 2017
Good person came down, not at all relaxed The Telegraph Cryptic 11 Aug 2017
Heavily taxed transport in South-East, beginning in Dover
Wooden steed, occasionally catching another form of transport The Telegraph Toughie 06 Jul 2017
Randiest when getting massage — that's awkward
Material commonly used during cathedral construction New York Times 05 Feb 2017
Material commonly used during cathedral construction
Not relaxed; laboured The Times Concise 18 Jan 2016
Under stress or lacking spontaneity Irish Times Simplex 16 Dec 2015
Unnatural air formed in rising depressions The Telegraph Toughie 20 Oct 2015
Tense troops finally exercised
Under pressure, son prepared to perform The Telegraph Cryptic 19 Apr 2015
Dirty clothing ending on floor, so awkward The Times Cryptic 19 Feb 2015
Like some muscles and baby food
Like much baby food
Like some relations
Tense, as relations
Tense, as relations
Like a baby's peas
Not natural
Put through a sieve
Stretched to the limit
Like some relations
Applied elbow grease
Prepared baby food
Prepared baby food
Taxed
Done with excessive effort
Filtered
Exerted oneself
Under great tension
Tense.
Filtered.
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