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RELATED WORDS : abdominal external oblique muscle abdominal muscle abducens muscle abductor muscle adductor muscle anconeous muscle antagonistic muscle anterior serratus muscle articular muscle axial muscle buccinator muscle cardiac muscle cheek muscle cowl muscle deltoid muscle depressor muscle extensor muscle external oblique muscle eye muscle facial muscle flexor muscle gastrocnemius muscle gluteal muscle gluteus muscle great adductor muscle greater pectoral muscle greater rhomboid muscle heart muscle inferior rectus muscle intercostal muscle involuntary muscle lateral rectus muscle lesser rhomboid muscle medial rectus muscle muscle bound muscle builder muscle building muscle cell muscle contraction muscle fiber muscle fibre muscle into muscle man muscle memory muscle reading muscle relaxant muscle sense muscle spasm muscle system muscle tone ocular muscle papillary muscle pectoral muscle posterior serratus muscle pterygoid muscle rhomboid minor muscle rhomboid muscle rhomboideus major muscle sartorius muscle scalene muscle skeletal muscle smaller pectoral muscle smooth muscle smooth muscle cell soleus muscle sphincter muscle splenius muscle sternocleidomastoid muscle striated muscle striated muscle cell striated muscle fiber striated muscle tissue superior rectus muscle temporal muscle temporalis muscle teres major muscle teres minor muscle teres muscle tibialis muscle transverse muscle of abdomen transversus abdominis muscle trapezius muscle voluntary muscle

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun muscle has 5 senses

• muscle(n = noun.body) musculus - one of the contractile organs of the body; Array
is a kind of contractile organ, contractor
has particulars: skeletal muscle, striated muscle, pronator, supinator, levator, antagonistic muscle, eye muscle, ocular muscle, rectus, involuntary muscle, smooth muscle, anatomical sphincter, sphincter, sphincter muscle, tensor
has parts: muscle cell, muscle fiber, muscle fibre

• muscle(n = noun.body) muscular tissue - animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells; Array
is a kind of animal tissue
has particulars: striated muscle tissue, cardiac muscle, heart muscle, smooth muscle
is a part of muscle system, muscular structure, musculature
Derived form adjective muscular₁

• muscle(n = noun.person) muscleman - a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard; "the drug lord had his muscleman to protect him"
is a kind of bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo

• muscle(n = noun.attribute) Array - authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way); "the senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign"
is a kind of authorisation, authority, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so

• muscle(n = noun.attribute) brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscularity, sinew - possessing muscular strength; Array
is a kind of strength
Derived forms verb muscle₁, adjective muscular₂, adjective muscular₄

Verb muscle has 1 sense

• muscle(v = verb.motion) Array - make one's way by force; "He muscled his way into the office"
is one way to go across, go through, pass
Derived form noun muscle₅
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP

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THESAURUS

muscle

adductor, arm, beef, beefiness, biceps, brawn, brawniness, buccinator, effort, elasticity, elbow grease, endeavor, energy, exert strength, exertion, force, gemellus, gluteus maximus, hard pull, heftiness, huskiness, infraspinatus, intercostal, involuntary muscle, latissimus dorsi, levator, long pull, masseter, mentalis, might, might and main, muscularity, musculature, mylohyoid, nasalis, nerve and sinew, oblique, occipitalis, omohyoid, pains, pectineus, pectoralis, peroneus, physique, potency, power, sinew, sinewiness, sinews, sphincter, strength, strong arm, strong-arm, tensor, thew, thewiness, thews, tone, trapezius, triceps, trouble, use force, voluntary muscle

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Strength

N strength, power, energy, vigor, force, main force, physical force, brute force, spring, elasticity, tone, tension, tonicity, stoutness, lustihood, stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew, thews and sinews, physique, pith, pithiness, virtility, vitality, athletics, athleticism, gymnastics, feats of strength, adamant, steel, iron, oak, heart of oak, iron grip, grit, bone, athlete, gymnast, acrobat, superman, Atlas, Hercules, Antaeus, Samson, Cyclops, Goliath, tower of strength, giant refreshed, strengthening, invigoration, refreshment, refocillation, dynamics, statics, strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid, resistless, irresistible, invincible, proof against, impregnable, unconquerable, indomitable, dominating, inextinguishable, unquenchable, incontestable, more than a match for, overpowering, overwhelming, all powerful, all sufficient, sovereign, able-bodied, athletic, Herculean, Cyclopean, Atlantean, muscular, brawny, wiry, well-knit, broad-shouldered, sinewy, strapping, stalwart, gigantic, manly, man-like, manful, masculine, male, virile, unweakened, unallayed, unwithered, unshaken, unworn, unexhausted, in full force, in full swing, in the plenitude of power, stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted, strong as a lion, strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy, sound as a roach, in fine feather, in high feather, built like a brick shithouse, like a giant refreshed, strongly, by force, by main force, our withers are unwrung, Blut und Eisen, coelitus mihi vires, du fort au diable, en habiles gens, ex vi termini, flecti non frangi, he that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves an, inflexible in faith invincible in arms.

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