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strainingly

strainingly adverb: so as to strain; with a straining action.

Adverb

strainingly (comparative more strainingly, superlative most strainingly)

  1. So as to strain; with a straining action.
    • He sat up after a few moments, and threw back his head, listening strainingly for outside sounds.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 36
    • […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself

Forms of strainingly

comparativemore strainingly
superlativemost strainingly

Origin of strainingly

From straining + -ly.

Questions about strainingly

What does strainingly mean?
Strainingly means so as to strain; with a straining action.
What part of speech is strainingly?
Strainingly is an adverb.

Words near strainingly in the dictionary

  1. straining courtesy
  2. straining every nerve
  3. straining piece
  4. straining pieces
  5. straining the potatoes
  6. strainingly
  7. strainings
  8. strainless
  9. strainlessly
  10. strainlessness
  11. strainmeter

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