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Meanings of nervous strain in English

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Spanish
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(Psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress.

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Usage of nervous strain in English
1
He carries the nervous strain of one day over to the next.
Riders of the Silences
2
Maria was, therefore, not subjected to the nervous strain of seeing him.
By the Light of the Soul: A Novel
3
I saw he really had been under a nervous strain, all right.
Ma Pettengill
4
The nervous strain was enormous and so was the moral strain.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 / Sexual Inversion
5
Often the effect of nervous strain in women is constant talking.
Nerves and Common Sense
6
Thoroughly exhausted by the nervous strain of the day before Robin slept late.
Red-Robin
7
Sweat broke out on his forehead, because of the nervous strain.
Now It Can Be Told
8
We do things, but we pay the penalty of nervous strain.
Woman's Work in Music
9
This last year has been full of both nervous strain and desperate monotony.
The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
10
Add together the physical effort, the mental activity, the nervous strain.
Don Orsino
11
A faint moisture broke out on his face with that acute nervous strain.
Poor Man's Rock
12
Bessie Stuart, exhausted by her long nervous strain, sank into a restless slumber.
A Prisoner of Morro; Or, In the Hands of the Enemy
13
She-eh-wasunder a-eh-under a nervous strain; a severe nervous strain, you know, and-
Mary Louise
14
The nervous strain had been considerable and she showed it.
Deadham Hard: A Romance
15
The keen competitive spirit that stimulates a match player also increases the nervous strain.
The Art of Lawn Tennis
16
She insisted that it was too much fish and nervous strain about the Mebbe.
Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions
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Translations for nervous strain
Spanish
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Nervous strain through the time
Nervous strain across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common