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muscle

/ˈmʌs.əl/ verbe C2

En français : forcer le passage

  1. To use force to make progress, especially physical force. (transitive) · He muscled his way through the crowd.
  2. To move forcefully or with great strength. (intransitive) · She muscled through the ruins.

He/she/it muscles · Prétérit muscled · Participe passé muscled · Forme en -ing muscling

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muscle
He/she/it
muscles
Prétérit
muscled
Participe passé
muscled
Forme en -ing
muscling

Dans la bibliothèque

After an hour he began to move, muscle by muscle, toward the jar.
The Jungle Book, p. 75 · B2
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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 99 · C1
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.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 11 · B2
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.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 17 · B2

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