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muscle up en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To train the muscles for increased size and strength.
    • We spent the summer trying to muscle up for football next term.
  2. (intransitive) To force one's way into or through.
    • There are only about ten tables, so you'll probably have to wait — or just muscle up to the bar like everyone else. 2007, Neil Schlecht, Spain for Dummies, page 470:
  3. (figuratively, intransitive, transitive) To make stronger or more powerful.
    • Churchill had again thwarted the American impulse to muscle up in the Pacific theater at the expense of the Atlantic[…] 2007, Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, page 26:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
muscled up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
muscled up Tense=Past lexicographic
muscling up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
muscles up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Translations (2)

fr se muscler (to train the muscles for increased size and strength) · fr prendre du muscle (to train the muscles for increased size and strength)