unstrain

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ strain.

Verb

unstrain (third-person singular simple present unstrains, present participle unstraining, simple past and past participle unstrained)

  1. (transitive) To relieve from strain; to relax.
    • 1611, Ben Jonson, Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly:
      Then, to prison of the night
      Did condemn those sisters bright,
      There for ever to remain,
      'Less they could the knot unstrain

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