unstrain

English

Etymology

un- + strain

Verb

unstrain (third-person singular simple present unstrains, present participle unstraining, simple past and past participle unstrained)

  1. (transitive) To relieve from a strain; to relax.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unstrain in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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