Overextend yourself Crossword Clue
While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Overextend yourself crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on June 27 2024 Newsday Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Overextend yourself has a total of 6 letters.
| Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99% | STRAIN | Overextend yourself | Newsday |
| 20% | STARTSMALL | Don't overextend yourself at first | Universal |
Definition
| • | Race; stock; generation; descent; family. |
| • | Hereditary character, quality, or disposition. |
| • | Rank; a sort. |
| • | To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument. |
| • | To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it. |
| • | To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously. |
| • | To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person. |
| • | To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship. |
| • | To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle. |
| • | To squeeze; to press closely. |
| • | To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain. |
| • | To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation. |
| • | To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth. |
| • | To make violent efforts. |
| • | To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil. |
| • | The act of straining, or the state of being strained. |
| • | A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain. |
| • | A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress. |
| • | A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement. |
| • | 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, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career. |
| • | Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain. |
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- Newsday: Jun 27, 2024
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