Definitions for strengths

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strengths strength

Spelling: [strengkth, strength, strenth]

IPA: /strɛŋkθ, strɛŋθ, strɛnθ/

Strengths is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 200 anagrams from letters in strengths (eghnrsstt).

Definitions for strengths

noun

1. the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
2. mental power, force, or vigor.
3. moral power, firmness, or courage.
4. power by reason of influence, authority, resources, numbers, etc.
5. number, as of personnel or ships in a force or body:
6. effective force, potency, or cogency, as of inducements or arguments:
7. power of resisting force, strain, wear, etc.
8. vigor of action, language, feeling, etc.
9. the effective or essential properties characteristic of a beverage, chemical, or the like:
10. a particular proportion or concentration of these properties; intensity, as of light, color, sound, flavor, or odor:
11. something or someone that gives one strength or is a source of power or encouragement; sustenance:
12. power to rise or remain firm in prices:

Idioms

1. on the strength of, on the basis of; relying on:

Origin of strengths

before 900; Middle English strengthe, Old English strengthu; see strong, -th¹

Examples for strengths

It increases in strength and warmth, blowing with a mighty roar.

War,” wrote Clausewitz, “is an extreme trial of strength and stamina.

He was still exerting his strength to the utmost when the whistle of the locomotive was heard.

It does say something for the strength of this half-season, however, that Terminus feels so far away now.

I know, better than you possibly can, what reasons I have to trust the strength of his affection.

They are stories of persecution and triumph, adversity and strength.

He threw himself against the rock and pushed with all the strength he could command.

Haley had grasped him by the shoulder, and in his grasp the boy's strength was nothing.

But Hollande was “insistent,” she writes, and “his strength of persuasion was nuclear.”

With twice as many British soldiers, Washington was in for a fiercely competitive battle of wit and strength.