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muscle English

Meaning muscle meaning

What does muscle mean?
Definitions in simple English

muscle Noun

— A muscle is a part of the body of a person or animal. It's a part that pulls to make parts of the body move. He can lift heavy things because he has strong muscles.

muscle Verb

— To muscle is to use strength or muscles to do something. He muscled his way into the room between the people who were trying to stop him.

muscle

— noun one of the contractile organs of the body — noun animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells — noun authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way) the senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign — verb make one's way by force He muscled his way into the office — noun (= muscleman) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard the drug lord had his muscleman to protect him — noun (= brawn) possessing muscular strength

Synonyms muscle synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as muscle?

muscle English » English

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Topics muscle topics

What do people use muscle to talk about?
Person Body

Flesh
Person Healthy

Injure
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Swell

Conjugation muscle conjugation

How do you conjugate muscle?

muscle · verb

Examples muscle examples

How do I use muscle in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The cat didn't move a muscle.
Each muscle shows perfect teamwork.
This medicine helps relieve muscle pain.
I pulled a muscle.
The heart itself is nothing more nor less than a large, tough, leather-like muscle.
The heart is a muscle.
I pulled a muscle in my back, so work today is going to be a painful experience.
They're coming! Don't move a muscle or you'll ruin the surprise.
The diaphragm is a muscle.
He has a torn calf muscle.
The calf muscle is located on the back of the lower leg.
It was obvious that the muscle-bound bodybuilder had been taking steroids.
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Tom likes muscle cars.
Jim pulled a muscle in his leg while skiing.
Bodybuilding is his hobby so he has a very firm tight body with lots of muscle definition.
The largest muscle in the human body is the gluteus maximus.
Tom pulled a muscle.

Movie subtitles

If they had that kind of muscle (strength) they could've caught plenty of criminals!
I must've pulled a muscle in my leg.
If you think you can muscle in on me like you did on Sam Vettori, you're off your nut!
Such a muscle.
That Schemer Burns' crowd tries to muscle in on us. I pity them.
Remember, he's a man of muscle.
A muscle twisted.
Now, to be out here in a rust-pot full of high-test gasoline, a guy has to be muscle-bound between the ears.
PUT SOME MUSCLE.
So I need muscle retractors, scalpels and clamps.
With a muscle for a brain and a tendency to insipid verse.
Yes, and you had lots of muscle.
Real muscle.
I put on muscle lately!
Every muscle tensed up in the frail body.
If you think you can muscle in like you did on Sam Vettori, you're off your nut!
I don't use muscle anymore.
Feel this muscle. Feel his muscle.
That Schemer Burns' crowd tries to muscle in on us.
It takes muscle.
Muscle has nothing to do with it.
He's muscle-bound.
You've hardly moved a muscle.
But he was always a little muscle-bound, see.
Arms, muscle.
To match muscle and might against a job that had to be done.
When I journeyed up to Scotland a few days ago. traveling on the Highland Express over that magnificent Forth Bridge. that monument to Scottish engineering and Scottish muscle.
Yet Dr. Weeks discarded the accepted method, took parts from the rectus muscle and sewed them into the liver, accomplishing nothing other than to cause more hemorrhage.
I'm going to use part of a muscle.
Yes, but it puts muscle on in the funniest places.
All you need is a little muscle.
Look, muscle gave me my start in politics.
You mean about the plumbing or the muscle?
Just hired muscle.
Pushed some muscle at me.
Somebody had to pay that muscle artist to brush him off.
You probably pulled a muscle.
And don't let anybody try to muscle in.

News and current affairs

This region receives information from all the senses and in turn controls the various networks that inspire the speeding heart, sweaty palms, wrenching stomach, muscle tension and hormonal floods that characterize being afraid.
Europe currently lacks military muscle because it made a decision a half-century ago to be protected by the US and devote the saved resources to building up its welfare state.
We are better targeting our external assistance and capacity building programs, and we are ready to use our trade and economic muscle, when necessary, by demanding counter-terrorism clauses in bilateral treaties.
Many nerve, respiratory and muscle diseases might also be caused by prions.
When its main role has been to provide financial muscle, the results have been less impressive.
But China's recent shift away from muscle-flexing, and its confluence of interests with a US-led order, offers hope that it will not fuel large-scale regional instability this year.
In both countries, the presidential administrations used their heavy muscle to dominate television, thereby limiting the ability of opposition candidates to make their case to the public.
Furthermore, it used its political muscle to block the early warning about its deficit that the EU Commission had mandated by the terms of the Stability Pact.
But banks used all their political muscle to stop states from enacting laws to curtail predatory lending.
What is most frightening about all this is not the American anti-missile project or Putin's rhetorical muscle-flexing, but rather the increasingly dramatic European weakness that the episode has exposed.
They're just re-jiggering the same old drugs, getting new patents and exclusivity, and relying on their marketing muscle to convince doctors and patients that they're producing medical miracles.
A rudderless US foreign policy is no response to a resurgent and neo-authoritarian Russia flexing its geopolitical muscle.
Robots are capable of performing repetitive tasks with a higher degree of precision and accuracy than are humans, and without muscle fatigue.
Because of its economic and trade muscle, China is bound to play a more prominent role as the Doha round unfolds.
They suffered from chronic vomiting, seizures, and muscle weakness, sending them and their parents on an odyssey of medical examinations and tests.
Meanwhile, China's growing geopolitical heft has led to muscle-flexing and territorial claims in Asia that disregard international norms.
Many spend their days lying in bed, where they develop major health problems including bedsores, muscle atrophy, spinal deformities, and breathing disorders.
But if it can no longer rely on the US, where can the Kingdom turn for sufficient military muscle?
If Europe is to be taken seriously as a global player, they argue, it must also flex some muscle when it delivers the money.
No one seems to know how to respond to China's diplomatic and military muscle flexing in Asia, for the extent of China's ambitions remains utterly unclear.
With its defense spending having grown almost twice as fast as its GDP, China is now beginning to take the gloves off, confident that it has acquired the necessary muscle.
The lesson is clear: The muscle-flexing rise of a world power can strengthen the strategic relevance and role of a power in relative decline.
In addition, at a time when the Chinese economy is slowing and regional tensions are rising because of China's muscle flexing in the South and East China Seas, Xi seems eager to radiate peace-loving ambitions.
But the foot-dragging by the nuclear states on disarmament is making it increasingly difficult to add necessary new muscle to the global non-proliferation regime.
But Japan's international muscle-flexing under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may be even more significant.

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