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synonyms for thews

  • beef
  • fat
  • meat
  • muscle
  • brawn
  • cells
  • corpuscles
  • fatness
  • food
  • plasm
  • plasma
  • protoplasm
  • sinews
  • weight
  • flesh and blood
On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to thews, such as: beef, fat, meat, muscle, brawn, and cells.

antonyms for thews

MOST RELEVANT
  • skinniness
  • thinness
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How to use thews in a sentence

These hills, if we have to mount them, shall sorely try the thews of horse and man.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUS
But our forebears were composed of less delicate nerves and tougher thews and sinews than ourselves.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPER
That angels were, moreover, supposed to possess thews and sinews, we find from Gen. xxxii.
ANCIENT FAITHS AND MODERNTHOMAS INMAN
The sufferer took a strange liking to this long-dreaded relation, this man of iron frame and thews.
NIGHT AND MORNING, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
And 'tis better a brain than thews and sinews, gold or lands, seeing that it has all these at command when I need them.
THE LONG NIGHTSTANLEY WEYMAN
Then the inexorable pull of the snow began to tell, even upon such thews as his, and his pace slackened.
KINGS IN EXILESIR CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS
Barton was a big young man, with great thews and sinews, and a broad, breast beneath his broadcloth and wide shirt-front.
THE MARK OF CAINANDREW LANG
But even less in form than face did the man of thews and sinews contrast the man of wile and craft.
LUCRETIA, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
If he had not the grace of an Apollo, he had what was better—the mighty thews and sinews of a twentieth century Hercules.
BERT WILSON ON THE GRIDIRONJ. W. DUFFIELD
For all his length of limb and massive thews he could be impish upon occasion.
THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT, SECOND SERIESRAFAEL SABATINI
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO THEWS

  • beef
  • brawn
  • cells
  • corpuscles
  • fat
  • fatness
  • flesh and blood
  • food
  • meat
  • muscle
  • plasm
  • plasma
  • protoplasm
  • sinews
  • thews
  • weight
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.