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Strong

adjective

(compar. stronger; superl. strongest)

Having strength or power greater than average or expected. "Strong medicine" , "A strong man" Antonym: weak.

Not faint or feeble.

Having or wielding force or authority. Synonym: potent.

Having a strong physiological or chemical effect. Synonyms: potent, stiff. "Potent liquor" , "A potent cup of tea" , "A stiff drink" Antonym: impotent.

Immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with. Synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, secure, unassailable, unattackable. "Fortifications that made the frontier inviolable" , "A secure telephone connection"

Of good quality and condition; solidly built. Synonyms: solid, substantial. "Several substantial timber buildings"

Of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection.

Being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content. Synonym: hard.

Freshly made or left. Synonym: warm. "The scent is warm"

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Strong and sure. Synonym: firm. "Gave a strong pull on the rope"

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... cause. He belongs to it, and I must help him be single-hearted for it. You could only be a bad influence in his life. I think you would like to be a sincere woman; but you can't. Your class is too strong for you. So—it would be wrong for Victor Dorn to love and to marry you. I think he realizes it and is struggling to be true to himself. I intend to ...

— The Conflict • David Graham Phillips

... of ore;[A] but the growth and vigour of the work comes from the mind of the king himself: he writes for the Prince of Scotland, and about the Scottish people. On its first appearance Camden has recorded the strong sensation it excited: it was not only admired, but it entered into and won the hearts of men. Harris, forced to acknowledge, in his mean style and with his frigid temper, that "this book contains some tolerable things," omits not to hint that "it might not be his own:" but the claims ...

— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli

... as if he sugared the medicine he gave them. His speech was nothing but demands for discipline and work, coupled with prophecy of disaster in case work and discipline failed. It was delivered like all his speeches, with a strong Polish accent and a steady ...

— The Crisis in Russia - 1920 • Arthur Ransome

... fighting, except from an ambush, or on his own ground, and that the summer was now far advanced, he withdrew his army from Zama, and placed garrisons in such of the cities that had revolted to him as were sufficiently strong in situation or fortifications. The rest of his forces he settled in winter quarters, in that part of our province nearest ...

— Conspiracy of Catiline and The Jurgurthine War • Sallust

... ancestors lived by raiding their neighbours. Their armed bands of hired retainers ravaged, burned, pillaged—the strong against the weak, the shrewd against the simple, the powerful against the defenseless. The power of those savages was purely physical. The power we give to their modern prototype is both physical and moral. They ...

— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon

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