muscle
/ˈmʌs.əl/ verb C2- To use force to make progress, especially physical force. · He muscled his way through the crowd.
- To move forcefully or with great strength. · She muscled through the ruins.
He/she/it muscles · Past muscled · Past participle muscled · -ing form muscling
Verb forms
- Base form
- muscle
- He/she/it
- muscles
- Past
- muscled
- Past participle
- muscled
- -ing form
- muscling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Nothing could exceed his energy when the working fit was upon him; but now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting-room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night.
The writer claimed by a momentary expression, a twitch of a muscle or a glance of an eye, to fathom a man’s inmost thoughts.
After an hour he began to move, muscle by muscle, toward the jar.
Cyril Overton, Trinity College, Cambridge, announced the arrival of an enormous young man, sixteen stone of solid bone and muscle, who spanned the doorway with his broad shoulders, and looked from one of us to the other with a comely face which was haggard with anxiety.
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