The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word STRAINED , but the solution may also be TOILED which is one of the most recent solution (2008 in USA Today).
Applied elbow grease crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STRAINED | 50 % | 8 |
| TOILED | 50 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Applied elbow grease
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- strained
- effort
- rub
- exert
- sweat
- scour
- scrub
- scoured
- scouring
- toil
- exertion
- travail
Crossword Answer definitions
STRAINED verb- To hold tightly, to clasp.
- To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
- To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
- To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
- To percolate; to be filtered.
- To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- To urge with importunity; to press.
- Hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.
- Forced through a strainer.
- Under tension; tense.
- Not natural or spontaneous but done with effort
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result STRAINED
- Stretched to the limit
- Emulated Sisyphus, in a way
- Like some relations
- Applied elbow grease
- Tense, as relations
- Hardly harmonious
- Prepared baby food
- Like much baby food
- Filtered.
- Tense.