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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large fibers of animal body |
| Synonyms: | beef, brawn, flesh, meat, might, sinew, tendon, thew, tissue |
| Main Entry: | beef |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong physical makeup |
| Synonyms: | arm, brawn, flesh, force, heftiness, meat, might, muscle, physique, power, robustness, sinew, steam, strength, thew, vigor |
| Main Entry: | bodyguard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protector |
| Synonyms: | bouncer, escort, guardian, minder, muscle*, praetorian, security guard |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brawn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscular strength and breadth |
| Synonyms: | beef, beefiness, clout, energy, flesh, kick, meat, might, moxie*, muscle, muscularity, power, punch, robustness, sinews, sock, steam, thew, vigor |
| Antonyms: | frailness, skinniness, slightness, thinness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | criminal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who breaks the law |
| Synonyms: | bad actor, black marketeer, blackmailer, con, convict, crook, culprit, delinquent, desperado, deuce, evildoer, ex-con, felon, fugitive, gangster, guerilla, heavy*, hood, hoodlum, hooligan*, hustler, inside person, jailbird, lawbreaker, malefactor, mobster, mug, muscle*, offender, outlaw, racketeer, repeater, scofflaw, sinner, slippery eel, thug*, transgressor, trespasser, wrongdoer, yardbird |
| Antonyms: | law, police |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elbow grease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
| Synonyms: | blood sweat and tears, effort, exertion, labor, muscle, oomph, oomph, physical effort, strain, strength, sweat, sweat of one's brow, toil, travail |
| Main Entry: | energy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's spirit and vigor |
| Synonyms: | activity, animation, application, ardor, birr, dash, drive, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, endurance, enterprise, exertion, fire, force, forcefulness, fortitude, get-up-and-go, go, hardihood, initiative, intensity, juice, life, liveliness, might, moxie*, muscle, operativeness, pep, pizzazz, pluck, potency, power, puissance, punch, spirit, spontaneity, stamina, steam, strength, toughness, tuck, vehemence, verve, vim, virility, vitality, vivacity, zeal, zest, zing, zip, élan |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inactivity, laziness, lethargy, tiredness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flesh |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | body tissue, skin |
| Synonyms: | beef, brawn, cells, corpuscles, fat, fatness, flesh and blood, food, meat, muscle, plasm, plasma, protoplasm, sinews, thews, weight |
| Main Entry: | force |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical energy, power |
| Synonyms: | arm, brunt, clout, coercion, compulsion, conscription, constrait, draft, duress, dynamism, effort, enforcement, exaction, extortion, full head of steam, fury, horsepower, impact, impetus, impulse, might, momentum, muscle, pains, potency, potential, pow, pressure, punch, push, sinew, sock, speed, steam, stimulus, strain, strength, stress, strong arm, stuff*, subjection, tension, trouble, velocity, vigor, violence, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | powerlessness, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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