Word Meanings - OVERSTRAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To strain one's self to excess. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to OVERSTRAIN)

• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• STRAINED
  1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• STRAINT
  Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser.
• STRAIN
  1. Race; stock; generation; descent; family. He is of a noble strain. Shak. With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring.
• STRAINABLY
  Violently. Holinshed.
• STRAINER
  1. One who strains. 2. That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• SUPERSTRAIN
  To overstrain. Bacon.
• UNSTRAINED
  1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
• CONSTRAINED
  Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
• UNRESTRAINT
  Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.
• RESTRAIN
  restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or 1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down;
• RESTRAINMENT
  The act of restraining.
• CONSTRAINT
  The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden. Syn. -- Compulsion;
• CONSTRAINABLE
  Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker.
• DISTRAINOR
  One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone.