strength

Roget category 159

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.8. Causation
›› 1.8.2. Connection between cause and effect

#159. [Degree of power.] Strength

noun

strength — power etc. 157 — energy etc. 171 — vigor, force — main force, physical force, brute force — spring, elasticity, tone, tension, tonicity.
stoutness etc. adj. — lustihood^†, stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew, thews and sinews, physique — pith, pithiness — virtility, vitality.
athletics, athleticism^† — gymnastics, feats of strength.
adamant, steel, iron, oak, heart of oak — iron grip — grit, bone.
athlete, gymnast, acrobat — superman, Atlas, Hercules, Antaeus^†, Samson, Cyclops, Goliath — tower of strength — giant refreshed.
strengthening etc. v. — invigoration, refreshment, refocillation^†.
[Science of forces] dynamics, statics.

verb

be strong etc. adj., be stronger — overmatch.
render strong etc. adj. — give strength etc. n. — strengthen, invigorate, brace, nerve, fortify, sustain, harden, case harden, steel, gird — screw up, wind up, set up — gird up one's loins, brace up one's loins — recruit, set on one's legs — vivify — refresh etc. 689 — refect^† — reinforce, reenforce etc. (restore) 660.

adjective

strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid.
resistless, irresistible, invincible, proof against, impregnable, unconquerable, indomitable, dominating, inextinguishable, unquenchable — incontestable — more than a match for — overpowering, overwhelming — all powerful, all sufficient — sovereign.
able-bodied — athletic — Herculean, Cyclopean, Atlantean^† — muscular, brawny, wiry, well-knit, broad-shouldered, sinewy, strapping, stalwart, gigantic.
manly, man-like, manful — masculine, male, virile.
unweakened^†, unallayed, unwithered^†, unshaken, unworn, unexhausted^† — in full force, in full swing — in the plenitude of power.
stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted — strong as a lion, strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy — sound as a roach — in fine feather, in high feather — built like a brick shithouse — like a giant refreshed.

adverb

strongly etc. adj. — by force etc. n. — by main force etc. (by compulsion) 744.

phrase

our withers are unwrung" [Hamlet]. Blut und Eisen [G.] — coelitus mihi vires [Lat.] — du fort au diable [Fr.] — en habiles gens [Lat.] — ex vi termini — flecti non frangi [Lat.] — he that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and he that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill" [Burke]; inflexible in faith invincible in arms" [Beattie].

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