💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Upstrain"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| upstriveverb | (archaic, poetic) To strive upward. |
| upseekverb | (intransitive) To seek or strain upward. |
| upthrustnoun | An upward thrust. |
| strainnoun | (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one. |
| upthrownoun | (geology) A fault in which a mass of material has been thrown up from below. |
| uprushnoun | An upwards rush. |
| stressnoun | (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal. |
| upheavenoun | (transitive) To heave or lift up; raise up or aloft. |
| reachnoun | The act of stretching or extending; extension. |
| heavenoun | (countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy. |
| strain a pointverb | (idiomatic) To make a special effort; especially, to do a degree of violence to some principle or to one's own feelings. |
| upstream | In a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver. |
| upsurgenoun | A sudden strong rise or flow. |
| upsucknoun | (biology) A hypothesized peristaltic action during the female orgasm that helps to retain sperm. |
| upstealverb | (poetic, intransitive) To steal or creep upward. |
| uptwistverb | (ambitransitive, poetic) To twist upward. |
| urgenoun | A strong desire; an itch to do something. |
| upflareverb | (intransitive, poetic) To flare upward. |
| uphaulnoun | To haul upwards. |
| aspireverb | (intransitive) To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something. |
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