To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
To schedule in intervals or at different times.
To cause to reel or totter.
An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
The spacing out of various actions over time.
One who attends a stag night.
The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
Bewilderment; perplexity.
The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
To urge with importunity; to press.
To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
To percolate; to be filtered.
hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
A kind or sort (of person etc.).
A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.