Word.ws English Dictionary

strains at the leash

strains at the leash is the third-person singular simple present indicative of strain at the leash.

Meaning of strain at the leash

Verb

strain at the leash (third-person singular simple present strains at the leash, present participle straining at the leash, simple past and past participle strained at the leash)

  1. (idiomatic) To be very eager to do or begin something.

Questions about strains at the leash

What is strains at the leash the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Strains at the leash is the third-person singular simple present indicative of strain at the leash.

Words near strains at the leash in the dictionary

  1. strainrate
  2. strainrates
  3. strains
  4. strains a point
  5. strains at a gnat
  6. strains at the leash
  7. strains courtesy
  8. strains every nerve
  9. strains the potatoes
  10. strainsome
  11. straint

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: strains at the leash (page history and authors); strain at the leash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “strains at the leash.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/strains_at_the_leash. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.