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Muscling

To use force to make progress, especially physical force.

📖 Definitions of "Muscling"

verb
  1. 1

    To use force to make progress, especially physical force.

    "He muscled his way through the crowd."

noun
  1. 1

    Muscles in the body, meant collectively

    "The legs are set wide apart due to the very thick muscling."

  2. 2

    The process of muscle formation or growth

    "The effects of muscling were of secondary importance to the effects of fatness."

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Muscling"

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musculusnoun(anatomy) A muscle.
sinewnoun(figuratively) Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength.
brawnnounPhysical strength; muscularity.
muscular tissuenounanimal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells
musculenounObsolete spelling of muscle. [(uncountable) A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.]
musclegirlnounA strong and muscular girl or woman, especially one who is a bodybuilder.
musclewomannounAlternative form of muscle woman. [a female bodybuilder]
myobundlenounA bundle of muscle fibres (or a robotic equivalent)
muscle girlnounAlternative spelling of musclegirl. [A strong and muscular girl or woman, especially one who is a bodybuilder.]
meatnoun(uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food, or a food designed to replicate its taste and texture (like plant-based meat).
muscle marynoun(slang, derogatory) A homosexual man who works to maintain a muscular physique.
manhoodnounThe state or condition of being a man, as contrasted with being a boy, woman, girl, or nonbinary.
muscologistnounOne who studies muscology.
masclenoun(heraldry) A lozenge with a smaller lozenge-shaped hole in the centre.
massnoun(physical) Matter, material.
musketrynounThe technique of using small arms such as muskets.
armaturenounThe rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire (the winding) around a metal core.
machodomnounThe realm, sphere, or world of the macho; those who are macho, taken collectively
masculenoun(heraldry) Alternative form of mascle. [(historical) A lozenge-shaped piece of metal, used in making scale mail.]
arraynoun(programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.

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