Meaning

1 senses

  1. To fuss or give undue importance to trivial things, often to the exclusion of truly significant issues.

Origin

Back-formation from gnat-strainer or gnat-straining.

Back-formation from gnat-strainer or gnat-straining.

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Forms

gnat-strains, gnat-straining, gnat-strained, gnat-strained
Base formgnat-strain · to gnat-strain
3rd person singulargnat-strains
Present participlegnat-straining
Past simplegnat-strained
Past participlegnat-strained

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygnat-strain
he, she, itgnat-strains

Past simpleLesson

all personsgnat-strained

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gnat-strained
he, she, ithas gnat-strained

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gnat-strain

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gnarlgnatgnawC1gnocchignome
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