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Synonyms for stout

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Synonyms for stout

capable of exerting considerable effort or of withstanding considerable stress or hardship

having a large body, especially in girth

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Synonyms for stout

a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops

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a garment size for a large or heavy person

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dependable

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euphemisms for 'fat'

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having rugged physical strength

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But there's a great deal more to Royal Liverpool's demanding seaside terrain, not least of which are the westerlies capable of blowing the stoutest of players off course.
"Even the stoutest hearts are melting into tears when they turn their faces toward the setting sun." Then he put his hand on Elias' shoulder and added, "I am afraid this land will be dewed with a nation's tears --if not with its blood.
The spectacle is enough to dampen the stoutest of hearts.
The low-grade town mother, with her generally subnormal health and her often undeveloped character, ought not to be forced to carry out her domestic tasks in the teeth of difficulties which would daunt the stoutest and the most resourceful.
THE VERY thought of Kirklees Council being involved in the running of the railway in the North of England must fill even the stoutest heart with trepidation.
Even O'Connor's choice of adjective to describe Tanner's demeanor in his final encounter with his murderer highlights the changed emphasis between "Getting Home" and "Judgment Day"; in the former, he uses his "stoutest voice" (Westarp 193), but in "Judgment Day" he speaks in his "jauntiest voice," which implies that Tanner has a sort of carefree joy as he prepares for his ultimate homecoming.
Normally I would breeze right past the shower where Bill can be heard belting out "The Stoutest Man in the Forty Twa" in his best Scottish accent Today I linger.
Possessing the stoutest frame and purest mind, he had passed nearly to his sixty-eighth year in the enjoyment of high health, when, habituated by his care of us to neglect himself, a slight cold, disregarded, became inconvenient on Friday, oppressive on Saturday, and, defying every medical interposition, before the morning of Sunday put an end to the best of men.
The spines supporting their fins are among the stoutest and sharpest you'll find in coastal waters.
The pipes are usually around two metres in length and each has one free reed, except for the shortest and stoutest pipe, which may have three free reeds.
Ales and lagers, dark and light; the plethora of choice could overwhelm the stoutest of drinkers.
Now they have lost their most abrasive senior figure in Mr Huhne, the stoutest defender of the party's interests within the government and, by some distance, the Tory backbenches' least-favourite Liberal Democrat.
Labium: Extending to bases of metacoxae; segment I stoutest, slightly shorter than II, extending nearly to bases of procoxae; segment II longest, segment III shortest; segment ratios 25: 27: 17: 20.