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, muscularity, brawn, musculus, brawniness, muscleman

2. muscle, muscular tissuenoun

   animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells

   Synonyms:
   muscular tissue, heftiness, sinew, 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-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, 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

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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. Ryan Marsh:

   Since he’s been on this new drug, the main side effect is muscle cramping, and that’s just something almost a normal person would experience with some of the things he does, but he seems to do a good job of dialing back the intensity when [the muscle cramps] come back.

2. Roozbeh Jafari:

   We decode the muscle activities we are capturing from the wrist. Some of it is coming from the fingers indirectly because if I happen to keep my fist like this versus this, the muscle activation is going to be a little different.

3. John Hutchinson:

   What speed giant tyrannosaurs might have normally walked at hasn't been a big question for many studies, but it is still an interesting question. The approach used here is complementary to fancier muscle-based simulation studies and, in a way, to data from fossil footprints, this study covers some new ground in a clever way with an original model. It's interesting and would be useful to integrate with and compare with other approaches in the future.

4. Vanderbilt University neurobiologist Kenneth Catania:

   What I like about these findings is they are inevitable and yet incredible, we know from basic physics that bringing two electrical poles together concentrates the electric field, and we know from basic muscle physiology that running a muscle too fast for too long causes exhaustion. But I would never have imagined an electric eel could produce the same results.

5. Stuart Phillips:

   People say that lifting heavier loads is the only way you can recruit type II fibers, but that’s just not true, you can recruit type II muscle fibers by induction of fatigue.