straining
- noun
- /ˈstreɪnɪŋ/
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distorsión
- Another early example of the government's unnecessary straining of the statutory text involves its advocacy of a stringent joint and several liability standard.
Examples
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His constant straining to present the data accurately led to a misinterpretation of the results.
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That is the punishment for the sin of seeking knowledge of good and evil and therefore of straining for divinity.
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So, he says, the sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little.
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And he knew that after all my straining and my dramatic posture of power, down the left-field line was exactly where I would end up hitting the ball.
Fiction book (2001) -
The politician's straining to reshape the truth was obvious during the debate.
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Her straining of the original message made it hard for the audience to understand the speaker's true intent.
Synonyms
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5.8
A report or statement that gives a false picture of the truth
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8.9
Deliberately changing the meaning of a text to make it say something else
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7.0
Making something seem simpler than it really is by leaving out important details
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6.3
Making facts seem to mean something else
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9.0
To give a fact or result more meaning than it really has
Interpreting a text or event with too much detail and imagination
An action that makes an idea or text too complex and changes its original meaning
Antonyms
How Distorted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Straining comes from an old idea of 'pulling tight', the same root you can see in the simple word string. A helpful image is someone pulling a sentence like a piece of string until it stretches and changes form, which is why straining can mean twisting words so they no longer show their true meaning.