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bemuscled

bemuscled adjective: having large muscles.

Adjective

bemuscled (comparative more bemuscled, superlative most bemuscled)

  1. (literary) Having large muscles.
    • All the bemuscled residents of the hotel were huddling in the lobby looking like sailors' wives waiting on the dock.1971, James Blake, The Joint, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, page 376
    • But the arrest of Sunjay Dutt, who usually plays a singing, dancing, bemuscled hero, has also plunged the Bombay film world into a witchhunt similar to Hollywood's anti-Communist purge in the 1950s.1993 May 4, Tim McGirk, “Star's arrest worries the film industry: Indian cinema is no longer popular with politicians”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2023

Examples of bemuscled in a sentence

  • We mock these bemuscled hulks in the pub, but they morph into heroes at the gym.2003 August 23, “A weight on their shoulders”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...
  • As fantasies go, this one is beyond innocent, involving neither a bemuscled UPS man nor an indulgent yoga boot camp with my best friend in Tulum.2012 March 2, Lisa Miller, “To Putter, Divine”, in New York Magazine, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
  • I was quite glad to have some wood between me and the bemuscled specimens of manhood in the hall, bristling with sharp things and making me feel inadequate.2013, Francis Knight, Fade to Black, London: Orbit Books, →ISBN, page 93:

Forms of bemuscled

comparativemore bemuscled
superlativemost bemuscled

Origin of bemuscled

From be- + muscled.

Questions about bemuscled

What does bemuscled mean?
Bemuscled means having large muscles.
How do you use bemuscled in a sentence?
We mock these bemuscled hulks in the pub, but they morph into heroes at the gym.
What part of speech is bemuscled?
Bemuscled is an adjective.

Words near bemuscled in the dictionary

  1. bemuffles
  2. bemuffling
  3. bemurmur
  4. BEMUs
  5. Bemus Point
  6. bemuscled
  7. bemuse
  8. bemused
  9. bemusedly
  10. bemusement
  11. bemusements

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