ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Strainingly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Strainingly is an adverb meaning So as to strain; with a straining action.

Meaning

So as to strain; with a straining action.

Example Sentences

He sat up after a few moments, and threw back his head, listening strainingly for outside sounds.
[…] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overstrenuously, overstrongly, rackingly, torturingly, hard, overrigorously.

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