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High-powered   /haɪ-pˈaʊərd/   Listen
High-powered

adjective
1.
Vigorously energetic or forceful.  Synonyms: high-energy, high-octane, high-power, high-voltage.  "A high-octane marketing plan" , "High-powered executives" , "A high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur"
2.
(used of microscopes) capable of a high degree of magnification.





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"High-powered" Quotes from Famous Books



... and ordered a high-powered machine to meet him at Ninety-sixth street. He ran down William street, with his straw hat under his arm, and dived into the subway. An express had him at Ninety-sixth street in a few minutes. His ...
— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard
... afternoon a few tourists—mostly Americans—rushed up in high-powered, panting cars to the gateway of the arena; gave a hurried ten minutes to the interior; and then whirled away across the white roads of the Rhone delta in a ...
— Swirling Waters • Max Rittenberg
... here the Committee— Sweet-breathed and smooth of skin And supple of spine and knee, With shining unpouched eyes And the blood, high-powered, Leaping in flexible arteries— The insolent, young, enthusiastic, undiscriminating Committee, Who would placard tombstones And scatter leaflets even in graves, Comes trampling with ...
— The Ghetto and Other Poems • Lola Ridge
... bees—bees sallying forth for honey, bees returning with honey, bees trampling on each other's heels, bees pausing in mid-air to pass the time of day with rivals on competing lines of traffic. Blunt-bodied drones whizzed to and fro with a noise like miniature high-powered automobiles, as if anxious to convey the idea of being tremendously busy without going to the length of doing any actual work. One of these blundered into Lord Dawlish's face, and it pleased Elizabeth to observe that he ...
— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse
... afraid of being ambushed by Forrest," said Warner, speaking from a swollen countenance. "Instead we struck something worse; we rode straight into an ambush of ten billion high-powered mosquitoes, every one tipped with fire. Have we got enemies like these to fight all ...
— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler


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