"strain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

strain verbo

strain + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 15

strain relations • strain one's eyes • strain one's ears • strain one's relationship • strain a muscle • ...

strain + preposición

Kolokacji: 25

strain against • strain at • strain for • strain with • strain in • ...

strain + adjetivo/adverbio

Kolokacji: 17

severely strained • strain forward • further strain • strain upward • badly strained • ...

Kolokacji: 2

Grup znaczeniowych: 3

(1) severely, badly, hard, seriously

Kolokacji: 4

Kolokacji: 11

1. strain forward = obciążenie do przodu strain forward

2. further strain = dalsze obciążenie further strain

3. strain upward = obciążenie do góry strain upward

4. strain desperately = obciążenie rozpaczliwie strain desperately

5. strain mightily = obciążenie niezmiernie strain mightily

6. greatly strained = zdecydowanie napięty greatly strained

7. financially strained = finansowo napięty financially strained

8. strain backward = obciążenie do tyłu strain backward

9. increasingly strained = coraz bardziej napięty increasingly strained

10. occasionally strain = od czasu do czasu obciążenie occasionally strain

The plot's suspenseful turns occasionally strain credulity, but one willingly forgives such lapses and concentrates on the appealing romance.
Reviewing the book for Time Out New York Parul Sehgal said: "While Bond's interpretations occasionally strain credulity, his sensibility enthralls.
This is partly because Mr. Letts's Texas trailer-park dialogue sounds so natural, only occasionally straining for effect, and partly because the production's five actors make such an unconditional commitment to their parts, refusing to signal that they are smarter than the people they're playing.
If Ellmann's biography occasionally strained to pump up Wilde's significance as an iconic literary figure, Ms. Belford's book plays down his status as an artist to portray him as a martyr who "catapulted Uranian passion out of adolescence and into maturity and gave birth to a homosexual consciousness."
Kyp remains reclusive and determined, occasionally straining his new friendship with Katakata.
The government has made an effort to provide adequate funding for education, occasionally straining tight budgets and even subsidised a great part of the expenditure in the Private Confessional schools, that is, schools under the control of the Catholic Church.
The production can occasionally strain in its bad-boy impishness.
She is, understandably, quite upset and her descriptions of us occasionally strain the ability of a translator, but, otherwise, she is in excellent health.

11. strain backwards = obciążenie do tyłu strain backwards

(3) slightly, somewhat

Kolokacji: 2

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