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Adjective strapping has 1 sense
- beefy, burly, husky, strapping, buirdly - muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly' is a Scottish term"
Antonym: frail (indirect, via robust)
Verb strap has 4 senses
- strap - tie with a strap
--1 is one way to tie, bind
Antonyms: unstrap
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
--2 is one way to beat, beat up, work over
Sample sentence:
They want to strap the prisoners
- strap - sharpen with a strap; "strap a razor"
--3 is one way to sharpen
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- strap - secure (a sprained joint) with a strap
--4 is one way to fasten, fix, secure
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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