brawny
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ni adjective, brawn·i·er, brawn·i·est.
muscular; strong.
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brawny (ˈbrɔːnɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , brawnier, brawniest | |
| muscular and strong | |
| 'brawnily | |
| —adv | |
| 'brawniness | |
| —n | |
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brawny brawn·y (brô'nē)
adj. brawn·i·er, brawn·i·est
Strong and muscular.
Hardened; calloused.
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Example sentences
It was as if a stranger's head had been attached to the brawny body, as in certain counterfeit photographs.
The best roadside burgers are big and brawny and take-no-prisoners.
But no matter how brawny individual computers become, they will never be as powerful individually as collectively.
Once brawny muscles have been acquired, whether licitly or illicitly, other genes might then be used to tune their activity.
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