mental strain
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmentalandstrain
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mental
adjective
uk/ˈmen.təl/us/-t̬əl/
relating to the mind, or involving the process ...
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strain
noun
uk/streɪn/us/streɪn/
a force or influence that stretches, pulls, or puts pressure on something, sometimes ...
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This eventually led to a major breakthrough, but only after several detours and muchmentalstrain.
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Impacts like thementalstrainor physical suffering of patients and their relatives are not included although many would say they are more important than the resource costs.
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We have heard about the mothers of small children and thementalstrainthat they suffer.
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The view has been taken that girls of 16 are too young for the physical andmentalstrainof nursing the sick and injured.
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It is said that this is taking its toll in lowered resistance to disease and inmentalstrain, of which we see too much today.
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I can well imagine thementalstrainthat she was under.
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It is a tremendous nervous, emotional andmentalstrain.
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I know of the extremementalstrainthat unemployment can cause.
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He claims he is suffering severe financial hardship andmentalstrainat a time when he had planned to retire.
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It left me in a situation of greatermentalstrainand tension than any other in my life so far.
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It is a result of thementalstrainthat derives from the fact that people have no adequate housing.
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No wonder they suffer from a severementalstrain.
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It may involve a good deal ofmentalstrain, but not so much physical strain.
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Is he further aware that unemployment imposes tremendousmentalstrain, not only on the displaced wage earner, but on his wife and family as well?
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Thankfully we have got away from that attitude and there is now nothing terrible about a person havingmentalstrain.
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There is the shock andmentalstrainof seeing familiar surroundings devastated, and it is only training and discipline that can overcome that.
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I am wholly in sympathy with the reduction of hours of men who are subject to any sort of physical ormentalstrain.
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There has been, as one result, a very great deal of physical andmentalstrainand stress.
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Farmers are under the most enormousmentalstrain.
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