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- Relations between the two countries have become strained (= difficult) recently. showing that someone is nervous or worried: She was looking strained and had dark circles beneath her eyes. Jean felt uncomfortable but managed to force a strained smile.
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1. : done or produced with excessive effort. 2. : pushed by antagonism near to open conflict. strained relations. Synonyms. affected. artificial. assumed. bogus. contrived. factitious. fake. false. feigned. forced. mechanical. mock. phony. phoney. plastic. pretended. pseudo. put-on. sham. simulated. spurious. unnatural.
If someone's appearance, voice, or behaviour is strained, they seem worried and nervous. She looked a little pale and strained. Gil sensed something wrong from her father's strained voice. His laughter seemed a little strained. Synonyms: forced, put on, false, artificial More Synonyms of strained. 2. adjective.
adjective. These are words and phrases related to strained. Click on any word or phrase to go to its thesaurus page. Or, go to the definition of strained. Strained relations between them got even worse. Synonyms. forced. labored. stiff. tense. choked. constrained. difficult. embarrassed. self-conscious. taut. uncomfortable. uneasy. unnatural.
showing that someone is nervous or worried: She was looking strained and had dark circles beneath her eyes. Jean felt uncomfortable but managed to force a strained smile. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Anxious and worried. (all) hot and bothered idiom. aflutter. agitated. angsty.
Examples of 'strained' in a sentence. Examples from Collins dictionaries. She looked a little pale and strained. Gil sensed something wrong from her father's strained voice. His laughter seemed a little strained. Examples from the Collins Corpus.
Strained definition: affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced. See examples of STRAINED used in a sentence.
Definition of strained adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
