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brawn

noun as in muscular strength and breadth

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Rugby’s seven-a-side format is a dazzlingly fast, shorter form of the game—emphasizing speed, risk-taking, and agility over brawn.

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Although getting windows unstuck may require skill and brawn, you should be able to fix those screens with less effort.

As governor of California, Schwarzenegger himself demonstrated the limits of American brawn.

Both films prized independence at their moral centers, and made brawn a virtue.

Founded in 1888 in Pittsburgh, Alcoa has long been a symbol of American industrial brawn.

This is the place where automakers show off brawn, power, and sex appeal.

He was built more like a bullock than a man, huge in bone and brawn, high in colour, and with a hand like a baby for size.

You are the brawn and the backbone of our free white Anglo-Saxon democracy, the flower of the world's peoples.

Boris went on cutting brawn upon a wooden platter with a swift and careful hand.

We used steam instead of the brawn of stalwart pioneers and Indians to propel the boat.

A pair of cold capons, a mortress of brawn, or what you will, with a flask or two of the right Gascony.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to brawn, such as: beef, clout, energy, flesh, kick, and meat.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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