[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

strain \strain\, v. t. imp.  p. p. strained; p. pr.  vb. n.
   straining. of. estraindre, estreindre, f. 'etreindre,
   l. stringere to draw or bind tight; probably akin to gr. ? a
   halter, ? that which is squeezwd out, a drop, or perhaps to
   e. strike. cf. strangle, strike, constrain, district,
   strait, a. stress, strict, stringent.
   1. to draw with force; to extend with great effort; to
      stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a
      ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument. "to
      strain his fetters with a stricter care." --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. mech. to act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of
      form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.
      1913 webster

   3. to exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.
      1913 webster

            he sweats,
            strains his young nerves.             --shak.
      1913 webster

            they strain their warbling throats
            to welcome in the spring.             --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. to stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in
      the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in
      order to convict an accused person.
      1913 webster

            there can be no other meaning in this expression,
            however some may pretend to strain it. --swift.
      1913 webster

   5. to injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of
      force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.
      1913 webster

   6. to injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too
      strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as,
      to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to
      strain a muscle.
      1913 webster

            prudes decayed about may track,
            strain their necks with looking back. --swift.
      1913 webster

   7. to squeeze; to press closely.
      1913 webster

            evander with a close embrace
            strained his departing friend.        --dryden.
      1913 webster

   8. to make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent
      effort; to force; to constrain.
      1913 webster

            he talks and plays with fatima, but his mirth
            is forced and strained.               --denham.
      1913 webster

            the quality of mercy is not strained. --shak.
      1913 webster

   9. to urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a
      petition or invitation.
      1913 webster

            note, if your lady strain his entertainment. --shak.
      1913 webster

   10. to press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as
       through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to
       purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by
       filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.
       1913 webster

   to strain a point, to make a special effort; especially, to
      do a degree of violence to some principle or to one's own
      feelings.

   to strain courtesy, to go beyond what courtesy requires; to
      insist somewhat too much upon the precedence of others; --
      often used ironically. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
strained straining strangle strike constrain district 
strait stress strict stringent to strain a point 
to strain courtesy 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

straining \strain"ing\,
   a.  n. from strain.
   1913 webster

   straining piece arch., 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.
      1913 webster
see also:
strain straining piece queen-post 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

straining
     adj : taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his
           final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task";
           "your willingness after these six arduous days to
           remain here"- f.d.roosevelt syn: arduous, strenuous
     n 1: an intense or violent exertion syn: strain
     2: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean
        something it was not intended to mean syn: distortion,
        overrefinement, torture, twisting
see also:
arduous strenuous strain distortion overrefinement torture 
twisting 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

135 moby thesaurus words for "straining":
   bloat, bloating, bolting, breaking point, cautious, clarification,
   colature, coloring, confabulation, corruption, demurring,
   destructive distillation, diffident, distension, distillation,
   distortion, draining, drudging, edulcoration, effusion, elution,
   elutriation, equivocation, essentialization, exaggeration,
   excretion, exfiltration, exhausting, extraction, extravasation,
   extreme tension, exudation, false coloring, false swearing,
   falsification, falsifying, faltering, fatiguesome, fatiguing,
   filtering, filtration, grinding, grubbing, grueling, hardworking,
   haul, heave, hesitant, hesitating, inflation, jibbing, killing,
   laboring, leaching, lixiviation, miscoloring, misconstruction,
   misdirection, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, misstatement,
   misuse, ooze, oozing, overdistension, overdrawing, overexertion,
   overexpansion, overextension, overstrain, overstraining,
   overstress, overstretching, overtaxing, pegging, percolating,
   percolation, perjury, perversion, plodding, plugging,
   prevarication, pull, punishing, purification, rack, refinement,
   riddling, screening, scrupling, seep, seepage, separation,
   shilly-shallying, sieving, sifting, slanting, slaving, slogging,
   snapping point, spiritualization, sticking, stickling, strain,
   stress, stress and strain, stressful, stressfulness, stretch,
   stretching, striving, struggling, sublimation, sweating, swelling,
   taxing, tension, tentative, timid, tiresome, tiring, toiling,
   toilsome, torturing, transudation, trying, tug, weariful, wearing,
   wearisome, wearying, weep, weeping, winnowing, working

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