I. noun
1.
Synonyms: hint 2, shade, soupçon, streak, suggestion, suspicion, tinge, touch, trace, vein
2.
Synonyms: melody , air, descant, diapason, lay, measure, melisma, melodia, tune, warble
3.
Synonyms: mood 1, humor, mind, temper, tone, vein
II. verb
1.
Synonyms: try 2, distress, harass, irk, pain, stress, trouble
Related Word: stretch
Idioms: put a strain on
2.
to injure (as a body part) by overuse or misuse
strained a muscle while lifting weights
Synonyms: pull
3.
Synonyms: labor 1, drive, moil, strive, toil, tug, work
4.
Synonyms: exude , bleed, ooze, ||screeve, seep, ||sew, ||sicker, sweat, transude, weep
5.
Synonyms: demur , balk, boggle, gag, jib, scruple, shy, stick, stickle, stumble
III. noun
Synonyms: stress 1, pressure, tension