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   Strong (?), a. [Compar. Stronger (?); superl. Strongest (?).] [AS. strang, strong; akin to D. & G. streng strict, rigorous, OHG. strengi strong, brave, harsh, Icel. strangr strong, severe, Dan. streng, Sw. sträng strict, severe.  Cf. Strength, Stretch, String.]
   1. Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.
   
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   That our oxen may be strong to labor. Ps. cxliv. 14.
   
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   Orses the strong to greater strength must yield. Dryden.
   
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   2. Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, “a strong constitution; strong health.”
   
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   3. Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, “a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.”
   
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   4. Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, “a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.”
   
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   5. Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, “a strong house, or company of merchants”.
   
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   6. Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, “an army ten thousand strong”.
   
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   7. Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, “a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.”
   
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   8. Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, “a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language.”
   
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   9. Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, “a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory.”
   
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   Her mother, ever strong against that match. Shak.
   
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   10. Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, “a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.”
   
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   11. Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, “strong liquors”.
   
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   12. Affecting any sense powerfully; as, “strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.”
   
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   13. Solid; nourishing; as, “strong meat”.  Heb. v. 12.
   
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   14. Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, “a strong custom; a strong belief.”
   
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   15. Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.
   
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   He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears. Heb. v. 7.
   
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   16. Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, “a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination”.
   
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   I was stronger in prophecy than in criticism. Dryden.
   
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   17. Vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful.
   
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   Like her sweet voice is thy harmonious song,
   
   As high, as sweet, as easy, and as strong. E. Smith.
   
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   18. (Stock Exchange) Tending to higher prices; rising; as, “a strong market”.
   
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   19. (Gram.) (a) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak. (b) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular.  F. A. March.
   
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   Strong conjugation (Gram.), the conjugation of a strong verb; -- called also old conjugation, or irregular conjugation, and distinguished from the weak conjugation or regular conjugation.
   
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   ☞ Strong is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, strong-backed, strong-based, strong-bodied, strong-colored, strong-fisted, strong-handed, strong-ribbed, strong-smelling, strong-voiced, etc.
   
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   Syn. -- Vigorous; powerful; stout; solid; firm; hardy; muscular; forcible; cogent; valid. See Robust.
   
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