Definition of "strainingly"

strainingly

adverb
comparative more strainingly, superlative most strainingly
1. So as to strain; with a straining action.
  Quotations
  He sat up after a few moments, and threw back his head, listening strainingly for outside sounds.
  1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 36
  […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.
  2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself