Word Finder - strongest

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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.

She was the strongest woman he'd ever met.

The magic is at its strongest between dusk and midnight.

Union sentiment was strongest in the north.

She walked in a circle until she found the strongest of the energy patterns in the vicinity and paused above it.

He hated those words, because he was the biggest and strongest of all Death.s assassins.

Even the purest and strongest of them, to include my brother's daughter, went mad and were killed.

It's probably the strongest urge you'll ever experience.

The child cannot believe that the strongest and wisest of its people have no remedy for its pain, and the hope of relief and the expression of its mother's sympathy while she rubs the bump comforts it.

It is situated on the river San and is one of the strongest fortresses in Galicia.

The strongest personal interest in his life was the affliction which befell him in the loss of his children, one after another.

The revocation of the charter aroused the strongest fears of the colonists Andros speedily met determined opposition by measures undertaken relative to taxation and land titles, by efforts to secure a church for Episcopal service, and an attempt to curb the town meetings.

The strongest statement regarding the inviolability of such dogmas is in Cicero's Academics, ii.

At first Seward had the strongest support.

Its bloom is never attractive, and the plants transferred to gardens from the mountains usually perish, because perhaps the strongest specimens are selected instead of the younger ones.

This temporary emigration is strongest in the spring, and consists principally of adult males (agriculturists, farm and day labourers, bricklayers and masons) in search of work.

The Germans and the Magyars were also proportionately split up. The strongest party in the republic was that of the Czechoslovak Social Democrats, which up to Sept.

Of the German parties the strongest was again the Social Democratic party, originally numbering 31 deputies and 16 senators, but having subsequently lost three deputies who formed a German Communist party acting more or less in concert with the Czechoslovak Communists.

For if it had failed utterly as a mission in partibus, it had succeeded in establishing on the Baltic one of the strongest military organizations in Europe.

The Calvinistic Methodists form in some respects the strongest church in Wales, and its forward movement, headed by Dr. John Pugh of Cardiff, has brought thousands into its fold since its establishment in 1891.

This consciousness receives perhaps its strongest expression in the Apocalypse.

In the result these troops were repulsed with a loss of 6000 men, a circumstance hardly to be wondered at, since McClellan had entrenched eight divisions on the strongest position in the country, and was aided by his siege artillery and also by a flanking fire from his gunboats on the river near Haxall's Landing.

In the south-east farmers are often compelled to retire with their flocks and herds before the thousands of huge, migratory vampires, which descend suddenly on the pastures and are able in one night to bleed the strongest animal to death.

The Roman amphora being equal to the cubic foot, and containing 80 librae of water, is one of the strongest cases of such relations, being often mentioned by ancient writers.

Probably no statesman has ever had a more disgusting task; and the fact that he discharged it to the satisfaction of a vast majority is the strongest testimony to Thiers's merits.

If he marries, it is to have children who may celebrate them after his death; if he has no children, he lies under the strongest obligation to adopt them from another family, ` with a view,' writes the Hindu doctor, ` to the funeral cake, the water and the solemn sacrifice.'" "May there be born in our lineage," so the Indian Manes are supposed to say, "a man to offer to us, on the thirteenth day of the moon, rice boiled in milk, honey and ghee."

The discovery of this significant looped arrangement of the morainic belts is the greatest advance in interpretation of glacial phenomena since the first suggestion of a glacial period; it is also the strongest proof that the ice here concerned was a continuous sheet of creeping land ice, and not a discontinuous series of floating icebergs, as had been supposed.

The Roman Catholics are strongest in the Western division and the North Atlantic division, with 49.2% in the former and 56.6% in the latter of all church members; their share in the North Central division is 36-9%.

To control the primary or the convention (as the case may be) of the party which is strongest in any given area is therefore, in ninetynine cases out of a hundred, to control the election itself, so far as the party is concerned, and in many places one party has a permanent majority.

All these tendencies, although strongest in municipal finances, are general.

The Methodists are the strongest, and in Ontario form over 30% of the population.

The substance to be reduced is brought into the luminous portion, where the reducing power is strongest.

The wood is the hardest and strongest of all the American conifers; it is durable and adapted for construction work or household furniture.

Had his career ended at this time, his Indian despatches alone would have proved him to have been one of the wisest and strongest heads that have ever served England in the East.

According to an important law discovered by Rydberg and shortly afterwards independently by the writer, the frequency of the common root of the two branches is obtained by subtracting the frequency of the root of the trunk from that of its least refrangible and strongest member.

By this desertion his self-esteem, one of his strongest passions, though curiously united with singular sincerity and humility, was doubtless hurt to the quick; but the wound inflicted was of a deeper and deadlier kind, for it confirmed him finally in his despair of the world's gradual amelioration, and established his tendency towards supernaturalism.

Next to the son of James II., still an infant under his father's control, Mary, princess of Orange, elder daughter of James II., had the strongest claim to the crown; but the claims of the prince of Orange also, even apart from his marriage, were not very remote, since he was the son of Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I.

Nietzsche, who afterwards, passing from the philosophy of will to the theory of evolution, ended by imagining that the struggle of the will to live produces the survival of the fittest, that is, the right of the strongest and the will to exercise power, which by means of selection may hereafter issue in a new species of superior man - the Uebermensch.

Its castle was the seat of the kings of Sodermanland, and after those of Stockholm and Kalmar was the strongest in Sweden.

The feet are small, each with five claws, those of the fore feet strongest, and fitted for scratching and digging.

In common with all enlightened opinion, he complained bitterly of the excessive multiplication of exemptions, of the exaggerated extension of appeals to Rome, of the luxury of the Roman court, of the venality of the cardinals, and of the injury done to the traditional hierarchy by the very extent of the papal power, which was calculated to turn the strongest head.

This conflict, moreover, brought Ultra montanism the enormous advantage that, even after the abolition of the May Laws, it had still left to it a well-disciplined press, an admirable organization, and a network of interests and interested parties; and all these combined to make the Centrum the strongest and the most influential political party in Germany for the remainder of the 19th century.

The matrix most commonly used is Portland cement, by far the best and strongest of them all.

The waters, which contain over 45% of salt, iodine and sulphur, are among the strongest of their kind in Europe; and are of high repute, being annually visited by more than a thousand patients.

Now as to this there is quite a remarkable unanimity in the testimony of the ancients, and the evidence is of the strongest kind, ascending to Herodotus, and, according to the account of Diogenes Laertius, even to Xenophanes, who was an Ionian, and not much later than Thales.

Forgiveness of injuries was as alien from her fierce and loyal spirit as forgetfulness of benefits; the destruction of England and its liberties by Spanish invasion and conquest was the strongest aspiration of her parting soul.

William had taken up his residence at Antwerp in order to give the French prince his strongest personal support, and while there a serious attempt was made upon his life (March 18th) by a youth named Jean Jaureguy.

Aarssens, the strongest advocate of the French alliance, passed away in 1641, and his death was quickly followed by those of Richelieu and Louis XIII.

Iron, the most abundant and the cheapest of the heavy metals, the strongest and most magnetic of known substances, is perhaps also the most indispensable of all save the air we breathe and the water we drink.

The skins, being the strongest of foxes', both in the fur and pelt, are serviceable.

Otter with the water hairs removed, the strongest fur suited for linings, is here taken as the standard.