Word Finder - stronger

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Capable of producing great physical force.

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a big strong man; Jake was tall and strong

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Capable of withstanding great physical force.

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a strong foundation; good strong shoes

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(of water, wind, etc.) Having a lot of power.

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The man was nearly drowned after a strong undercurrent swept him out to sea.

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Determined; unyielding.

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He is strong in the face of adversity.

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Highly stimulating to the senses.

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a strong light; a strong taste

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Having an offensive or intense odor or flavor.

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a strong smell

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Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient.

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a strong cup of coffee; a strong medicine

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(specifically) Having a high alcoholic content.

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a strong drink

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(grammar) Inflecting in a different manner than the one called weak, such as Germanic verbs which change vowels.

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a strong verb

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That completely ionizes into anions and cations in a solution.

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a strong acid;  a strong base

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Not easily subdued or taken.

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a strong position

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Having wealth or resources.

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a strong economy

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Impressive, good.

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You're working with troubled youth in your off time? That’s strong!

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Having a specified number of people or units.

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The enemy's army force was five thousand strong.

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(of a disease or symptom) Severe; very bad or intense.

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Having a wide range of logical consequences; widely applicable. (Often contrasted with a weak statement which it implies.)

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(of an argument) Convincing.

They were much older, much stronger than he.

The emotion was stronger than hunger and sorrow.

During this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look about him and even speak.

Have you got anything stronger than tea to drink?

Connor is much stronger than he should be.

I'm stronger than you think.

She'd built up a callus around her heart, one that got stronger and easier to maintain as she manipulated evil men.

Sometimes that temptation can be stronger than the man - or woman.

They had been through better and worse and each time they had come out on the other side with a stronger relationship.

If I love Sonya, that feeling is for me stronger and higher than all else.

To increase the power of your electromagnet, use a stronger battery.

The system has data from all their GPS records and infers that to drive across town several times for a place is a stronger vote than eating at the corner restaurant.

Kris's memories stirred stronger than he liked. He remembered Lilith, a beautiful Immortal whose laugh had filled him with happiness. Their love had been intense and brief, lasting less than a human year in total. One day, she was just … gone.

Far stronger than boys many years older than he was, he bent and lifted her, carrying her to her permanent resting place.

The third time that he thrust out the weapon there was a loud roar and a fall, and suddenly at his feet appeared the form of a great red bear, which was nearly as big as the horse and much stronger and fiercer.

And truly though the enemy was twice stronger than we, we were unshakable.

Dean started slowly and she answered in a straightforward manner, her voice becoming stronger as she proceeded.

And yet, the creature is generous and lets me take as much of his magic as I need, enough to build our walls in a season's time and make them stronger than the walls of my enemies.

He was stronger than she was, had been for quite some time.

Every thwarted desire was the signal for a passionate outburst, and as she grew older and stronger, these tempests became more violent.

It is the art of being stronger than the enemy at a given moment.

Their energies are stronger when they're alive.

Instead of destroying him, it made him stronger.

The sense she was falling ill grew stronger.

Was it possible for such a connection to be stronger than her bond to her own world?

There were men of stronger build than the weak Ishbaal and the crippled son of Jonathan, the survivors of Saul's house, and it is only to be expected that David's first care must have been to cement the union of the north and south.

The setae vary much in form and are often longer and stronger than in the Oligochaetes.

But the appeal to the verbally inspired Bible was stronger than that to a church hopelessly divided; the Bible, and not the consent of the universal church, became the touchstone of the reformed orthodoxy; in the nomenclature of the time, " evangelical " arose in contradistinction to " Catholic," while, in popular parlance, the " protest " of the Reformers against the " corruptions of Rome " led to the invention of the term " Protestant," which, though nowhere assumed in the official titles of the older reformed churches, was early used as a generic term to include them all.

The stronger current of modern authority is in favour of the landlords and not in favour of restricting the meaning of covenants of this class.

But the Genoese, who had helped with provisions and siege-tackle in the capture of Antioch and of Jerusalem, had both a stronger claim on the crusaders, and a greater interest in acquiring an eastern emporium.

Secession is a right claimed or exercised by weaker states of a union whose rights are threatened by the stronger states, which seldom acknowledge such a principle.

They had considerable towns, as Segesta and Eryx, and the history, as well as the remains, of Segesta, shows that Greek influences prevailed among them very early, while at Eryx Phoenician influence was stronger.

Syracuse repaid the debt by good service to the Peloponnesian cause, and from that time the mutual influence of Sicily and old Greece is far stronger than in earlier times.

Brentano's much stronger claim is however that no propositions at all are accepted in such judgements, not even existential ones.

The present feeling, though not so bright and poetic as the former, was stronger and more serious.

That rule says that an attacker should concentrate his forces in order to be stronger than his opponent at the moment of conflict.

The child molester was tied to a similar but stronger case.

If anything, the nagging feeling was growing stronger.

The closer she got, the stronger she felt him.

Whatever is between us is only getting stronger.

Yully grew more anxious the nearer they got; her father was right about the magic feeling stronger.

The urge almost seemed stronger with her today than when he left her last night.

Forced into hiding by the circumstances of the past two weeks, Gabriel's yearning for his mate emerged stronger than ever at her passionate kisses and touch.

Another sense grew stronger.

His predecessor had seemed much stronger.

She knew he could've taken so much more, made himself stronger by bleeding her dry.

This—combined with General Greene's encrypted messages—made her instincts stronger.

Father and Andre always said we were stronger together than apart.

It makes you stronger.

He wasn't sure which instinct was stronger.