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Strong

adjective

(compar. stronger; superl. strongest)

Having strength or power greater than average or expected. "Strong medicine" , "A strong man"

Not faint or feeble.

Having or wielding force or authority. Synonym: potent.

Having a strong physiological or chemical effect. Synonyms: potent, stiff. "Potent liquor" , "A potent cup of tea" , "A stiff drink"

Immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with. Synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, secure, unassailable, unattackable. "Fortifications that made the frontier inviolable" , "A secure telephone connection"

Of good quality and condition; solidly built. Synonyms: solid, substantial. "Several substantial timber buildings"

Of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection.

Being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content. Synonym: hard.

Freshly made or left. Synonym: warm. "The scent is warm"

10.

Strong and sure. Synonym: firm. "Gave a strong pull on the rope"

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... she had begun to wonder—in irresistible flashes—before the news had come which sent her to the mountains, if she should falter at the last moment. But breeding has carried many a woman over the ploughshares of life, and her mind was probably strong enough to go on to the inevitable without theatric climax. At the same time the idea of marriage with one man when she loved another was abhorrent; that it was particularly so since marriage with the other had become possible, she understood perfectly. And although she continued ...

— Senator North • Gertrude Atherton

... Miles, and Governor Carver, pale with illness which within a month reunited him with the son he had loved, and Elder Brewster, with his serious mien, and Bradford, who was to succeed Carver, with his strong, authoritative features and thoughtful forehead;—these and more than a score more of the brethren stood eying their visitor, questioning him earnestly and trying to make out his meaning from his imperfect English gruntings. And they spoke one to another of the action that should ...

— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne

... properly speaking, never entered politics, but presently, when it became strong, the members all formed what they called "The Illinois Anti-Slavery League," and it was this body that conducted the anti-slavery contest. It always kept one of its members and several of its friends in the Territorial Legislature, and five years before ...

— The Jefferson-Lemen Compact • Willard C. MacNaul

... her blue cotton gown, her hair tight and flat as seemed proper when one was not dressed, she thought about these things. And it was strange: Lulu bore no physical appearance of one in distress or any anxiety. Her head was erect, her movements were strong and swift, her eyes were interested. She was no drooping Lulu with dragging step. She was more intent, she was somehow more operative ...

— Miss Lulu Bett • Zona Gale

... Mexico there are reasons especially strong for perfect harmony in the mutual exercise of jurisdiction. Nature has made us irrevocably neighbors, and wisdom and kind feeling should make ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 8: Grover Cleveland, First Term. • Grover Cleveland

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