THESAURUS
straining
bloat, bloating, bolting, breaking point, cautious, clarification, colature, coloring, confabulation, corruption, demurring, destructive distillation, diffident, distension, distillation, distortion, draining, drudging, edulcoration, effusion, elution, elutriation, equivocation, essentialization, exaggeration, excretion, exfiltration, exhausting, extraction, extravasation, extreme tension, exudation, false coloring, false swearing, falsification, falsifying, faltering, fatiguesome, fatiguing, filtering, filtration, grinding, grubbing, grueling, hardworking, haul, heave, hesitant, hesitating, inflation, jibbing, killing, laboring, leaching, lixiviation, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdirection, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, misstatement, misuse, ooze, oozing, overdistension, overdrawing, overexertion, overexpansion, overextension, overstrain, overstraining, overstress, overstretching, overtaxing, pegging, percolating, percolation, perjury, perversion, plodding, plugging, prevarication, pull, punishing, purification, rack, refinement, riddling, screening, scrupling, seep, seepage, separation, shilly-shallying, sieving, sifting, slanting, slaving, slogging, snapping point, spiritualization, sticking, stickling, strain, stress, stress and strain, stressful, stressfulness, stretch, stretching, striving, struggling, sublimation, sweating, swelling, taxing, tension, tentative, timid, tiresome, tiring, toiling, toilsome, torturing, transudation, trying, tug, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, weep, weeping, winnowing, working
