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Significados de straining em inglês

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The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.

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        An intense or violent exertion.

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              Taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance.

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                    Uso de straining em inglês
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                    This new reality has caused bitter exchanges on social media, straining friendships.
                    The Guardian
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                    Every house was different, Charlie said, idiosyncratic but without straining to be.
                    A place of my own: the architecture of daydreams
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                    Refugees are flooding out of Syria, straining neighbouring countries' ability to cope.
                    Reuters
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                    Refugees are flooding out of Syria, straining neighboring countries' ability to cope.
                    Reuters
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                    Yet even in this sector firms saw the franc straining sales prices.
                    Reuters
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                    Let stand for a few minutes before straining through a fine sieve.
                    Cooking for friends
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                    D. The old trick; picking one text, straining it; and ignoring six.
                    Hard Cash
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                    Ten minutes later, it was a silver igloo straining at its moorings.
                    The Sails of Tau Ceti
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                    Davido could hear his voice creaking and cracking, straining to say something.
                    Tomato rhapsody: a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit
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                    Despair leaned forward, straining to hear, lest he miss a single syllable.
                    The Wyrmling Horde
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                    The shifting hoard of newspeople went silent, straining to hear Garrett's response.
                    Book of shadows
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                    Anduin heard it after a moment of straining- afainttapping and clanking.
                    World of warcraft: the shattering: prelude to cataclysm
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                    Aileen bent to examine it, her eyes straining in the increasing dusk.
                    Flamsted quarries
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                    Erect in the middle of the drawing-room, Constance listened, straining her ears.
                    Fruitfulness
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                    But he saw that she was straining her eyes in the distance.
                    Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
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                    There is no straining after effect in the manuscript reproduced by Craik.
                    John Rutherford, the White Chief: A Story of Adventure in New Ze...
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