superstrain

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English

Etymology

From super- +‎ strain.

Pronunciation

Noun

superstrain (plural superstrains)

  1. A strain (of a disease etc.) that comprehends several substrains.

Verb

superstrain (third-person singular simple present superstrains, present participle superstraining, simple past and past participle superstrained)

  1. (obsolete) To overstrain.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      In the straining of a string , the further it is strained the less superstraining goeth to a note

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “superstrain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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