Muscle and Work

Muscle

Muscle noun - Muscular strength.

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Work and muscle are semantically related In some cases you can use "Work" instead a noun "Muscle".

Nearby Words: muscular, muscled, muscling

Work noun - The active use of energy in producing a result.

Usage example: put a lot of work into the project

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Muscle and work are semantically related in labor topic. Sometimes you can use "Muscle" instead a noun "Work".

Nearby Words: works, working, worked, workable, worker

physical	physical muscle	physical work
nice	nice muscle	nice work
best	best muscle	best work
legal	legal muscle	legal work
Other adjectives: single, heavy, actual, real, hard, serious, little, main, necessary, new, major, less, extra.

You can build up your leg strength to jump higher and build up your muscle mass to make you stronger and heavier, but you cannot work yourself to being as tall as Shaquille O'Neal.

Source: Hard Work Hardly Works
Later seasons, and the later series as a whole, seems to ignore this, portraying them instead to be meek and weak cowards who prefer subterfuge and hired muscle in order to do their dirty work.

Source: Early Installment Weirdness / Live-Action TV
It's not clear how they work, but a person hit by a stunner blast is knocked out for some time and has trouble regaining muscle control for a short while after waking up.

Source: Literature / Line of Delirium

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