"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 • ...
(1) relation, relationship, tie
Kolokacji: 3
1. strain one's eyes = wytężać wzrok strain one's eyes
3. strain credulity = łatwowierność obciążenia strain credulity
  • But it would be straining credulity too far to expect that everything will be absorbed.
  • In one telling moment, he strained both credulity and judicial temperament.
  • For the severely depressed - people who are in such pain that they consider suicide an escape - her statement will strain credulity.
  • Rabinowitz's defense is so full-throated that it sometimes strains credulity.
  • If anything, Letterman thinks, these women have a compulsion to reach a higher plane of conversation that strains credulity.
  • Doesn't it strain credulity that this is just another in a long line of White House "mistakes"?
  • One of Saturday's semifinal matches would have strained credulity in a movie script.
  • Certainly it strains credulity that something so amazingly useful could have evolved entirely by chance.
  • As in his previous books, there are astonishing scenes, some that strain credulity.
  • Of course, politicians strain credulity all the time, and the alternative in this case looks unattractive: a trade war with the world's fastest-growing economy.
4. strain credibility = wiarygodność obciążenia strain credibility
5. strain one's ability = obciążenie czyjś umiejętność strain one's ability
(3) ear, budget, sense
Kolokacji: 3
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 • ...

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