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Strainings
- noun - an intense or violent exertion
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
Straitened
- verb - bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
- squeeze together
Straitness
- - The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.
Stramazoun
- - A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword.
Stramonium
- - A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.
Stranglers
- noun - an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree
- someone who kills by strangling
Strangling
- verb - conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- die from strangulation
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"
- prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"
Strap Fern
- noun - fern with long narrow strap-shaped leaves
Strasbourg
- noun - city on the Rhine in eastern France near the German border; an inland port