straining
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straining
verb
- present participle and gerund of strain
noun strainings
- The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc) sundry violent gaspings and strainings
- filtering, the process of passing something through a strainer. Then after that process which Culverwel describes as so many strainings, refinings, and clarifyings, the mind is prepared for a true insight into the real nature of the world by way of intuition.
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Closest in meaning: stress, arduous, effortful, strenuous, distortion, torture, overrefinement, twisting, exhausting, stifling, ruining, suffocating, draining, screening, sieving, causing
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noun straining/filtering something
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Talk about this word "straining." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/straining. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. straining. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/straining "straining." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/straining.Cite this
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title = {straining},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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