straining
noun
- injure, put stress on, violent exertion
adjective
- adjectival: hurting
Wiktionary
noun
- The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc)
“sundry violent gaspings and strainings”
- filtering, the process of passing something through a strainer.
“Then after that process which Culverwel describes as so many strainings, refinings, and clarifyings, the mind is prepared for a true insight into the real nature of the world by way of intuition.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of strain