Definitions
Powerful, firm, intense, or not easily broken.
Word origin
From Middle English strong, strang, from Old English strang (“strong”), from Proto-West Germanic *strang (“severe, strict, rigorous, strong”), from Proto-Germanic *strangaz (“tight, strict, straight, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“taut, stiff, tight”).
Used in a sentence
“a big strong man; Jake was tall and strong”
“The man was nearly drowned after a strong undercurrent swept him out to sea.”
“For he was swift as swallow in her flight, And strong as Lyon in his lordly might.”
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01“Full of strength”6 letters
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