unstrain

verb

unstrain

verb

Etymology From un- + strain.

1

To relieve from strain; to relax.

  • Then, to prison of the night Did condemn those sisters bright, There for ever to remain, 'Less they could the knot unstrain1611, Ben Jonson, Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly:

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