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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations |
| Section VIII. Causation |
| 2. Connection Between Cause and Effect |
| 159. [Degree of Power.] Strength. |
| NOUN: | STRENGTH; power [See Power]; energy [See Energy]; vigor, force; main -, physical -, brute- force; spring, elasticity, tone, tension, tonicity. [COMPARISONS] adamant, steel, iron, oak, heart of oak; iron grip; bone. VIRILITY, vitality; stoutness &c. adj.; lustihood, stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew or sinews, thews and sinews, physique; grit, pith, pithiness. ATHLETICS, athleticism; gymnastics, acrobatism, agonistics, feats of strength. ATHLETE, gymnast, pancratiast, acrobat; Atlas, Hercules, Antæus, Samson, Cyclops, Briareus, Colossus, Polyphemus, Titan, Brobdingnagian, Goliath; tower of strength; giant refreshed STRENGTHENING &c. v.; invigoration, refreshment, refocillation [obs.]. [SCIENCE OF FORCES] dynamics, statics. |
| VERB: | BE STRONG &c. adj., be stronger; overmatch. RENDER STRONG &c. adj.; give strength &c. n.; strengthen, invigorate, potentiate [rare], brace, nerve, fortify, buttress, sustain, harden, caseharden, steel, gird; screw up, wind up, set up; gird -, brace-up one’s loins; recruit, set on one’s legs [colloq.]; vivify; refresh [See Refreshment]; refect [archaic], reinforce or reënforce (restore) [See Restoration]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | STRONG, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, husky [colloq., U. S.], doughty, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid. RESISTLESS, irresistible, invincible, proof against, impregnable, unconquerable, indomitable, inextinguishable, unquenchable; incontestable; more than a match for; overpowering, overwhelming; all-powerful, all-sufficient; sovereign. ABLE-BODIED; athletic, gymnastic, carobatic, agonistic, palæstral [rare]; Herculean, Briarean, Brobdingnagian, Titanic, Cyclopean, Atlantean; muscular, brawny, wiry, well-knit, broad-shouldered, sinewy, sinewous [rare], strapping, stalwart, gigantic. MANLY, manlike, manful; masculine, male, virile, in the prime of manhood. UNWEAKENED, unallayed, unwithered, unshaken, unworn, unexhausted; in full force, in full swing; in the plentitude of power. SOUND; stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as -a lion, - an ox, - a horse - brandy; sound as a roach; in fine feather, in high feather [both colloq.]; like a giant refreshed. |
| ADVERB: | STRONGLY &c. adj.; by force &c. n.; by main force &c. (by compulsion) [See Compulsion]. |
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