Food and drink
Synonyms for strain
Synonyms for strain: extend, filter, sift, song, stress and tenor. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 6 synonyms for strain
Interchangeable with strain in this sense
Audited under strain's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one strain carries in that sense.
- extendverb, in the sense "use to the utmost"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name strain as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- filterfilter is a verb in the sense "remove by passing through a filter"
- siftsift is a verb in the sense "separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements"
- songsong is a noun in the sense "the act of singing"
- stressstress is a noun in the sense "difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension"
- tenortenor is a noun in the sense "the general meaning or substance of an utterance"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under strain and five under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
use to the utmost
Don't strain your mind too much.
The true synonym
extend
Same sentence, swapped: Don't extend your mind too much.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for strain in the sentence quoted.
- filter
- strive
- resort
Where strain turns up in the game
strain is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where strain is the trap
- reachverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is hit, in the sense "reach a point in time, or a certain state or level", and strain is one of the three tiles that lose.
- songnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is call, in the sense "the characteristic sound produced by a bird", and strain is one of the three tiles that lose.
- extendverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is unfold, in the sense "extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length", so strain is there to be ruled out.
- extendverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is widen, in the sense "extend in scope or range or area", so strain is there to be ruled out.
Play strain
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so strain reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other food and drink words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. strain carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.