Attack and Straining

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Attack

Attack noun - The act or action of setting upon with force or violence.
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Straining and attack are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Straining" instead a noun "Attack".
Nearby Words: attacked, attacker, attacking, attackable

Straining

Straining noun - An intense or violent exertion.
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Attack and straining are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Attack" instead a noun "Straining".
Nearby Words: strain, strained, strainer

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  • It should be noted that, even as powerful as she'd become, Chrysalis was visibly straining against Celestia's attack.
    Source: Broken Base / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
  • Music / Elvis Presley He is also rumoured to have died of a heart attack brought on by straining to relieve impossibly constipated bowels (see Big Eater, above, though he was also known to have suffered from a twisted colon).
    Source: Music / Elvis Presley
  • Hill Street Blues: When a ridiculously obese Loan Shark keels over dead of a heart attack in the cells and practically the entire day-shift is enlisted to try and drag his corpse up the stairs and into a waiting ambulance, Andy Renko ends up straining his groin in the process.
    Source: Crack! Oh My Back!
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