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Strained vs Troubled - What's the difference?

strained | troubled |

As adjectives the difference between strained and troubled

is that strained is forced through a strainer while troubled is anxious, worried, careworn.

As verbs the difference between strained and troubled

is that strained is past tense of strain while troubled is past tense of trouble.

strained

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Forced through a strainer.
    • Babies don’t seem to like strained peas, even though the puree is easy for them to eat and digest.
  • Under tension; tense.
    • Ever since the fight our relation has been strained .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (strain)

    • Anagrams

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    troubled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Anxious, worried, careworn.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (trouble)