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strainsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From strain + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by straining
   • There are 300 steps to the mountain and it is strainsome to ascend the stairs. 1973, Ēnugula Vīrāsvāmayya, Kasiyatra Charitra:
   • [...] when you looked me with those teary eyes / and heart pounding with strainsome cries [...] 2011, Prashant Saxena, The Departed One:

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