astrain

English

Etymology

a- +‎ strain

Adjective

astrain (not comparable)

strained or straining
- Robert Browning
  With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck astrain.
- 1913, Maurice Hewlett, Bendish
  That miserable young man kept his eyes astrain towards the upper window, but without reward. Rose did not show herself.

Anagrams

Sartain, Sinatra, Taranis, Trainas, antiars, artisan, sartain, tasiRNA, tasirna, tsarian, tsarina

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