Definitions for strength

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strength strength

Spelling: [strengkth, strength, strenth]

IPA: /strɛŋkθ, strɛŋθ, strɛnθ/

Strength is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 174 anagrams from letters in strength (eghnrstt).

Definitions for strength

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 strength

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

Examples for strength

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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