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  {
    "word": "strain",
    "phonetic": "/st\u0279e\u026a\u032fn/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/st\u0279e\u026a\u032fn/",
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    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Treasure.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Race; lineage, pedigree.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "There is a strain of madness in her family."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A tendency or disposition.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A kind or sort (of person etc.).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
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  {
    "word": "strain",
    "phonetic": "/st\u0279e\u026a\u032fn/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/st\u0279e\u026a\u032fn/",
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    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "The act of straining, or the state of being strained.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "he jumped up with a strain; \u00a0 the strain upon the sailboat's rigging"
          },
          {
            "definition": "An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The track of a deer.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To hold tightly, to clasp.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The gale strained the timbers of the ship."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to strain the law in order to convict an accused person"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To percolate; to be filtered.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "water straining through a sandy soil"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To urge with importunity; to press.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "to strain a petition or invitation"
          },
          {
            "definition": "Hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
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      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
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  },
  {
    "word": "strain",
    "phonetic": "/st\u0279e\u026a\u032fn/",
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      {
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    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "A man straineth, liveth, then dieth."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
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