adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
muscular build
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These exercises will help you achieve a strong muscular build.
muscular dystrophy
muscular (= with big muscles )
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His chest was tanned and muscular.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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The older boy, leaner and more muscular , has shorter hair and a small skull-cap which may conceal a tonsure.
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No mistaking her-a taller, more muscular version of Kathy.
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A smooth young man's body, more muscular than she had expected.
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She performed her hit Music, looking more muscular than ever.
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The production of stress is generally believed to depend on the speaker using more muscular energy than is used for unstressed syllables.
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A long, sleek C-pillar gave the car a more muscular look and the side scoops became bigger and wider.
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The boy's body will take on the squarer, more muscular appearance of manhood.
■ NOUN
body
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But for some reason the thought of dark, obsidian eyes and a powerful, muscular body kept getting in the way.
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Involuntarily, Margaret thought of Jack's muscular body last night.
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She lost her balance and fell against him, feeling the muscular body tense and brace itself to stop her falling further.
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He followed her down, trapping her against the upholstered arm and his hard muscular body .
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He is good-looking with floppy black hair, brown eyes and a lean muscular body .
build
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I agree with points raised in the correspondence regarding muscular build raising suspicion of abuse.
dystrophy
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Claims must be made within two years of the child's birth, or four in the case of muscular dystrophy .
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In the early 1980s, her son Peter died at 15 of muscular dystrophy .
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Absence of the carboxy terminus of dystrophin is associated with severe phenotypes in most muscular dystrophy patients.
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Sufian had one client with muscular dystrophy who needed to take every Wednesday off work, so he could rest his muscles.
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In only a few cases, such as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, has the gene and its protein been identified.
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In 1847 he described two boys with what was obviously pseudo-hypertrophic muscular dystrophy , described twenty-one years later by Guillaume Duchenne.
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He has raised money for muscular dystrophy charities.
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The researchers hope that their results will allow them to initiate studies in humans with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy .
leg
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Her nightgown had ridden up around her waist, and she enjoyed feeling his hard, muscular legs entwined around hers.
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He looked well-built, with barrel chest, thin waist, and long, thin, muscular legs and pronounced knee bulges.
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A muscular leg came up and trapped hers beneath it.
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Major Hartley-Harrington's widow was a big, brusque woman, with muscular legs and a nose she could look down.
man
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The other was a heavily-built, muscular man with a lobster nose and none of his sister's lost beauty.
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With the silky cover beneath her back, Virginia blinked up at the dark, muscular man above her.
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He was a heavy muscular man of about sixty.
tension
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Not only had he spotted excessive muscular tension throughout his body, but now he thought he knew how to correct it.
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A trained and skilled practitioner can tailor a session to treat insomnia by reducing muscular tension and promoting relaxation.
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We start to lose control of our minds in the same way that muscular tension is often out of our control.
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The trouble is that anything you do, nomatterwhat, will nearly always increase the muscular tension and make the situation worse.
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This always increases muscular tension which is the very opposite of what you are trying to achieve.
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But holding these positions creates muscular tension which, ultimately, replaces one habit with another.
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They make no attempt to explore the cause of those tears, concentrating instead on living without muscular tension .
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This will ease the muscular tension in the neck so that the chin drops towards the chest.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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muscular pain
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a tall, muscular man
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He had broad shoulders and muscular arms.
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He kept his firm muscular body in shape with an hour's run every morning.
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It requires a lot of muscular control.
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She liked men who were tall and muscular .
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You should see him, he's really muscular .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was a large, quiet man with the most amazing muscular development I have ever seen.
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He was looking right at me as he said all this: handsome, muscular , preppy.
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Involuntarily, Margaret thought of Jack's muscular body last night.
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It is a muscular organ, which, when it contracts, forces the urine down the urethra.
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The child with high myopia is also at risk of further visual deterioration from muscular haemorrhage or retinal detachment.
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The older boy, leaner and more muscular , has shorter hair and a small skull-cap which may conceal a tonsure.
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The trouble is that anything you do, nomatterwhat, will nearly always increase the muscular tension and make the situation worse.
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They lay side by side, doing their relaxation exercises - deep breathing and total muscular relaxation from the feet up.