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Another word for muscle

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Noun

  1. The state or quality of being physically strong

    See also:

    strong

  2. Effective means of influencing, compelling, or punishing

    See also:

    strong

    over

Verb

  1. To force one's way into a place or situation

    See also:

    push

    enter

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Another word for muscle

Noun
  1. See also:

    tissue

    © WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

    Sentence Examples

    • Not a single muscle of his face--which in those days was still thin--moved.

    • Every muscle in her body was sore.

    • He was one large muscle with a direct gaze that made her overly self-conscious.

    • A deeper ache, as if she had the flu and every muscle in her body was on fire, was made worse by sleeping on the cold floor.

    • The iris contains a sphincter and a dilator muscle; the former, supplied by branches from the oculomotorius nerve, is under control of the will, whilst the dilator fibres belong to the sympathetic system.

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