Word Finder - strength

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The quality or degree of being strong.

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It requires great strength to lift heavy objects.

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The intensity of a force or power; potency.

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He had the strength of ten men.

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The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.

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A positive attribute.

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We all have our own strengths and weaknesses.

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An armed force, a body of troops.

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A strong place; a stronghold.

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To give strength to; to strengthen.

She'd need her strength for what she planned.

You've got to keep your strength up.

I never saw such strength and endurance in a child.

When I think back, it's difficult to believe I found the strength to do so.

His strength was the kind she could almost imagine herself melting into.

No, my strength grew as I aged.

His movements were controlled, his strength restrained.

A sense of desperation almost took her strength away.

The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.

She didn.t have the strength this night to tell him to go.

That depends on his strength.

They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

He collected all his strength, to stir and utter a sound.

I need to be at full strength to send us back through the portal.

Somehow his voice gave her strength.

She'd seen demons and what they could do, and the size and strength of Gabriel was enough to warn her she never wanted to meet another of him.

He tried not to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him.

He knew when and where to use his strength.

He employed all his ability and strength to do the best he could for himself and his army, as he had done previously and as he did subsequently in 1813.

The novelty of Truth endowed her with special strength, but now we need much more powerful methods.

Like an experienced sportsman he knew that the beast was wounded, and wounded as only the whole strength of Russia could have wounded it, but whether it was mortally wounded or not was still an undecided question.

She doubted she'd ever get used to his towering size or strength.

The Russian army, only half the strength of the French, does not make a single attempt to attack for a whole month.

He had the magic, the strength.

It moved freely through her body, stealing her strength for its final act against her.

To furnish young shoots in sufficient abundance, and of requisite strength, is the great object of peach training and pruning.

It is very difficult for events to be reflected in their real strength and completeness amid the conditions of court life and far from the scene of action.

He crossed his arms, aware she was the only creature not intimidated by his displays of strength.

My letters are so small none will ever see my missive, but there it will remain and give me strength for what I am now resigned I must do.

I love your spirit and your strength and that look you give me when I say stupid shit.

What constituted in this primitive system of inheritance the strength of a claim was often not easily determined, and even when the legal question was clear enough the law was not always respected by the contending parties.

The sacrifice is in its origin a communion; god and worshippers have a bond of kinship between them; but it is liable to be interrupted or its strength diminished.

The tranverse electromotive force is equal to KCH/D, where C is the current, H the strength of the field, D the thickness of the metal, and K a constant which has been termed the rotatory power, or rotational coefficient.

His physical strength and agility during the first days of his imprisonment were such that he seemed not to know what fatigue and sickness meant.

Still, he'd admired Jenn's spunk, beauty, and strength.

She could not remember anything as comforting as his protective strength and heat.

She let herself feel the comfort of his strength.

Celman, acting upon the advice of General Roca, who recognized the strength of public opinion in the outbreak, placed his resignation in the hands of congress on the 31st of.

A movement to elect Mr Taft president of Yale University gained some strength in 1898-99, but was promptly checked by him, on the ground that the head of a great university should be primarily an educationalist.

More original, perhaps, is the argument in the immediately preceding work, The Destiny of Man, viewed in the Light of his Origin (1884), which is, in substance, that physical evolution is a demonstrated fact; that intellectual force is a later, higher and more potent thing than bodily strength; and that, finally, in most men and some "lower animals" there is developed a new idea of the advantageous, a moral and non-selfish line of thought and procedure, which in itself so transcends the physical that it cannot be identified with it or be measured by its standards, and may or must be enduring, or at its best immortal.

The Joachimite ideas were equally persistent among the Spirituals, and acquired new strength with the publication of the commentary on the Apocalypse.

This total represents the nominal strength of the army in times of peace.

But the revival was now in full strength.

He no longer seemed stout, though he still had the appearance of solidity and strength hereditary in his family.

Connor clenched his fists and ground his teeth in an effort to keep from showing his strength.

It was going to take two hands to pull him - two hands and all her strength.

Did the room actually have a magical strength, or was it simply a childish fantasy?

Carmen felt drawn to him — not by pity, but by his strength.

She used what strength she had to roll onto her back, desperate for a Healer.

By the strength of their presence in his mind, they weren't close.