The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word STRAINS which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2020.
Stretches to the limit crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STRAINS | 100 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Stretches to the limit
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Crossword Answer definitions
STRAINS noun- Treasure.
- The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
- Race; lineage, pedigree.
- Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
- A tendency or disposition.
- Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style
- A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
- A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
- A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- The track of a deer.
- 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.
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