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Meaning of Straining | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard

Definitions

  1. The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc)
  2. filtering, the process of passing something through a strainer.

Equivalents

Examples

“sundry violent gaspings and strainings”
“Then after that process which Culverwel describes as so many strainings, refinings, and clarifyings, the mind is prepared for a true insight into the real nature of the world by way of intuition.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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