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unstrain

unstrain verb: to relieve from strain; to relax.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To relieve from strain; to relax.
    • Then, to prison of the night
      Did condemn those sisters bright,
      There for ever to remain,
      'Less they could the knot unstrain1611, Ben Jonson, Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly

Forms of unstrain

third-person singular presentunstrains
present participleunstraining
past participleunstrained
pastunstrained

Origin of unstrain

From un- + strain.

Questions about unstrain

What does unstrain mean?
Unstrain means to relieve from strain; to relax.
What part of speech is unstrain?
Unstrain is a verb.
What is the past tense of unstrain?
The past tense of unstrain is unstrained.

Words near unstrain in the dictionary

  1. unstraightens
  2. unstraightforward
  3. unstraightforwardly
  4. unstraightforwardness
  5. unstraightness
  6. unstrain
  7. unstrainable
  8. unstrained
  9. unstrainedness
  10. unstraining
  11. unstrains

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