"bemuscled" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From be- + muscled.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1971, James Blake, The Joint, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, page 376:",
          "text": "All the bemuscled residents of the hotel were huddling in the lobby looking like sailors' wives waiting on the dock.",
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          "ref": "1993 May 4, Tim McGirk, “Star's arrest worries the film industry: Indian cinema is no longer popular with politicians”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 2023-04-15:",
          "text": "But the arrest of Sunjay Dutt, who usually plays a singing, dancing, bemuscled hero, has also plunged the Bombay film world into a witchhunt similar to Hollywood's anti-Communist purge in the 1950s.",
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          "ref": "2003 August 23, “A weight on their shoulders”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-09-11:",
          "text": "The only men who seem to be relaxed at the gym are those who spend half their lives there - the personal trainers, the addicts, the pros. We mock these bemuscled hulks in the pub, but they morph into heroes at the gym. And, secretly, I wonder: how do I get anywhere near that level of tautness?",
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          "ref": "2012 March 2, Lisa Miller, “To Putter, Divine”, in New York Magazine, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-11:",
          "text": "As fantasies go, this one is beyond innocent, involving neither a bemuscled UPS man nor an indulgent yoga boot camp with my best friend in Tulum.",
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          "ref": "2013, Francis Knight, Fade to Black, London: Orbit Books, →ISBN, page 93:",
          "text": "I was quite glad to have some wood between me and the bemuscled specimens of manhood in the hall, bristling with sharp things and making me feel inadequate.",
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        "Having large muscles."
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        "(literary) Having large muscles."
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  "word": "bemuscled"
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          "ref": "1971, James Blake, The Joint, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, page 376:",
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          "ref": "1993 May 4, Tim McGirk, “Star's arrest worries the film industry: Indian cinema is no longer popular with politicians”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 2023-04-15:",
          "text": "But the arrest of Sunjay Dutt, who usually plays a singing, dancing, bemuscled hero, has also plunged the Bombay film world into a witchhunt similar to Hollywood's anti-Communist purge in the 1950s.",
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          "text": "The only men who seem to be relaxed at the gym are those who spend half their lives there - the personal trainers, the addicts, the pros. We mock these bemuscled hulks in the pub, but they morph into heroes at the gym. And, secretly, I wonder: how do I get anywhere near that level of tautness?",
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          "text": "As fantasies go, this one is beyond innocent, involving neither a bemuscled UPS man nor an indulgent yoga boot camp with my best friend in Tulum.",
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        },
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          "text": "I was quite glad to have some wood between me and the bemuscled specimens of manhood in the hall, bristling with sharp things and making me feel inadequate.",
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