Strength

/ˈstɹɛŋθ/ · noun

Meaning

The quality or degree of being strong..

Definitions by Sense

1. The quality or degree of being strong.
2. The intensity of a force or power; potency.
3. The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
4. A positive attribute.
5. (obsolete) An armed force, a body of troops.
6. (obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.
7. (graph theory) The minimum ratio of the number of edges removed from a given graph to components created, over all possible removals.
8. (obsolete) To strengthen (all senses).

Example Sentences

It requires great strength to lift heavy objects.

Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn.

He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.

He had the strength of ten men.

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

[…] certainly there is not in the world a greater strength against temptations, then is deposited in an obedient understanding […].

to play to one's strengths

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• strengths
• strengthing
• strengthed

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