Synonyms for Muscle
ˈmʌs əlmus·cle

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1. muscle, musculusnoun

   one of the contractile organs of the body

   Synonyms:
   muscular tissue, heftiness, sinew, muscle, muscularity, brawn, musculus, brawniness, muscleman

2. muscle, muscular tissuenoun

   animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells

   Synonyms:
   muscular tissue, heftiness, sinew, muscle, muscularity, brawn, musculus, brawniness, muscleman

3. muscleman, musclenoun

   a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard

   "the drug lord had his muscleman to protect him"

   Synonyms:
   musclebuilder, bodybuilder, muscleman, heftiness, muscular tissue, brawniness, brawn, musculus, muscularity, sinew, muscle builder, muscle, muscle-builder

4. musclenoun

   authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way)

   "the senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign"

   Synonyms:
   muscular tissue, heftiness, sinew, muscularity, brawn, musculus, brawniness, muscleman

5. brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftinessverb

   possessing muscular strength

   Synonyms:
   vigor, musculus, muscularity, massiveness, tendon, energy, heftiness, vim, ponderosity, ponderousness, muscle, muscleman, brawn, brawniness, heft, sinew, muscular tissue, vigour

6. muscleverb

   make one's way by force

   "He muscled his way into the office"

Matched Categories

1. • Authority
   • Bully
   • Contractile Organ
   • Pass

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. musclenoun

   Synonyms:
   brawn, thew, sinew, tendon

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1. List of paraphrases for "muscle":

   muscular, muscles, dorsi, brawn, heeling, musculature, primal

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MUSCLE

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1. Robert Melillo:

   If you get a child who has really strong left brain and delayed right brain, those are kids that may be labeled with attentional problems or behavioral problems or social issues, the easiest way to get their brain to become coordinated is by making their body coordinated, so a large part of what we're doing is this sensory motor interaction, building their muscle tone, building their strength, building their body spatial awareness.

2. Alison Tedstone:

   To protect their bone and muscle health, they should consider taking a daily supplement containing 10 micrograms of vitamin D, with the nation staying in to save lives and protect the NHS, many people are spending more time indoors and may not get all the vitamin D they need from sunlight.

3. Shania Twain:

   Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

4. John Cornyn:

   Sadly, Ibelieve Ms. Gupta will be a clear and present danger to the American people if she's given the muscle and mightof the Department of Justice, as well as the entire federal government of the United States of America.

5. Ruben Abagyan:

   Imagine that when you get depressed, that not just one location on your forehead — which forms this frown wrinkle — but all the muscles get stressed and constricted, then there is a distributed muscle memory. By breaking that memory by basically relaxing all of them, you break the feedback between the head and the muscles in this case.