| strain | the act of singing |
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| strain | an intense or violent exertion |
| strain | an effortful attempt to attain a goal |
| strain | a lineage or race of people |
| strain | pervading note of an utterance |
| strain | a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence |
| strain | a special kind of domesticated animals within a species |
| strain | (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups |
| strain | (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces |
| strain | injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse) |
| strain | (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress |
| strain | difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension |