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Xem thêm: musculus, muscular tissue, muscleman, brawn, brawniness, muscularity, sinew, heftiness
muscle noun
ADJ. hard, powerful, strong | taut, tense, tight | cramped I walked up and down the aisle to stretch my cramped muscles. | tired | abdominal, arm, calf, facial, heart, thigh, etc. | skeletal
VERB + MUSCLE flex, tense He flexed his muscles, then set off to run. | relax Learn how to relax tense muscles. | stretch | build (up), strengthen, tone (up) | pull, tear I laughed so hard I almost pulled a muscle.
MUSCLE + VERB ache | clench, contract, stiffen, tense, tighten | go limp, loosen, relax, slacken | quiver, ripple, twitch His muscles rippled beneath his T-shirt as he worked. | control sth the muscles controlling speech production
MUSCLE + NOUN cell, fibre, tissue | group | disease, pain | contraction, relaxation, spasm, tension | tone
PREP. ~ in The muscles in my face tensed.
n.
the drug lord had his muscleman to protect him
the senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign
v.
He muscled his way into the office