astrain
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editastrain (not comparable)
- strained or straining
- 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came:
- With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck a-strain.
- 1913, Maurice Hewlett, Bendish:
- That miserable young man kept his eyes astrain towards the upper window, but without reward. Rose did not show herself.