Clinging and Strong

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Strong and clinging are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Strong" instead an adjective "Clinging".

Nearby Words: cling, clingy

Strong adjective - Having muscles capable of exerting great physical force.

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Clinging and strong are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Clinging" instead an adjective "Strong".

Nearby Word: strongly

There was an old metaphor of romantic love describing a guy as a strong, solid tree, and a woman as a vine clinging to it.

Source: Analogy Backfire
Bottle-nosed dolphins aren't strong enough to haul a full-sized human around the training-tank for more than a lap or two, but pairs of them working together can carrying a clinging human a fair distance or even lunge out of the water with a trainer hanging between them.

Source: Horse of a Different Color
But Fridge Logic dictates that this is actually the opposite, Hayate himself is clinging to the girls because they're frail and important that he know that they're alright, and Hinagiku, who he knows is strong enough to take care of herself, doesn't need to be protected for him to know she's safe.

Source: Security Cling

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