Muscle Synonyms and Antonyms
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Synonyms for Muscle
The energy or motive force by which a physical system or machine is operated:
Any of various elongated cells or threadlike structures, especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber.
Such tissue of an animal, used as food:
Influence; pull:
The deltoid muscle, a triangular muscle on the human shoulder.
A capacity for affecting the mind or behavior; efficacy:
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The definition of influence is the power that someone has over someone or something.
(Anatomy) A sheet or band of tough, fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages at a joint or supporting an organ.
(--- Informal) The of a person
sartorius
A flat narrow thigh muscle, the longest of the human anatomy, crossing the front of the thigh obliquely from the hip to the inner side of the tibia.
The power to resist attack; impregnability
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supinator
(Anatomy) Any muscle that aids supination
Any of the inelastic cords of tough, fibrous connective tissue in which muscle fibers end and by which muscles are attached to bones or other parts; sinew
A structure of quantities arranged by zero or more indices, such as a scalar (zero indices), a vector (one index), or a matrix (two indices), which is invariant under transformations of coordinates.
thews
Muscles or sinews
Either of the large muscles on each side of the upper back
(Anatomy) Specifically, the triceps brachii.
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The definition of brawn means developed muscles, or physical strength.
Strength or power of any degree
The quality of being powerful
The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.
Oppressiveness; pressure:
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To move by being pushed
To push or thrust, as along a surface
musculus
one of the contractile organs of the body
(Slang) A bodyguard, esp. one hired to use coercive, physical methods; goon
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The semifluid, translucent substance that forms the living matter in all plant and animal cells. Composed of proteins, fats, and other substances suspended in water, it includes the cytoplasm and (in eukaryotes) the nucleus.
The flesh of a slaughtered full-grown steer, bull, ox, or cow.
(Informal) Display of the figure of a nude, or partly nude, muscular man, as in a magazine photograph
horseflesh
A species of Bahama mahogany, Lysiloma sabicu and Lysiloma latisiliquum.
Of or relating to kinesthesia.
Designating or of stimuli produced in bodily tissues, as the muscles or tendons, and received there by the proprioceptors
pronator
A muscle that effects or assists in pronation.
muscular tissue
animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells
(Informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.
A muscle that contracts a cavity or opening, or compresses an organ
Antonyms for Muscle
The quality or condition of being impotent
Words Related to Muscle
Something in addition; excess; surplus
transversus
gastrocnemius
relaxants
lower-body
paraspinal
A sheet of tissue paper
In real property, to pass upon or into; of litigation, to file or present to the court—for example, to enter an appearance into the record; of a contract, to enter into it means to sign or execute it.
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