superstrain
English
Etymology
super- + strain
Noun
superstrain (plural superstrains)
- 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)
- (obsolete) To overstrain.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)