musclebound
having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
rigid; inflexible: musclebound rules.
Origin of musclebound
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How to use musclebound in a sentence
His hairline was receding, but he was visibly muscle-bound even in a suit.
Did a CIA Agent Work for the Mob? Excerpt from Evan Wright’s New Book | Evan Wright | June 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBatman is then drawn back to Gotham to do battle with the muscle-bound menace Bane, played by Tom Hardy.
2012’s Most Anticipated Movies: Dark Knight Rises, Hunger Games, More | Marlow Stern | January 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHot, scantily clad girl with perpetually dewy skin plus a muscle-bound, invincible, heat-packing man?
And so for the opening round of political punditry, we turned to the muscle-bound grapplers themselves.
I thought I was a muscle-bound iron puddler, but they pronounced me an intellectual giant.
The Iron Puddler | James J. Davis
For athletics they had their turn vereins in which men went through hard, laborious exercises which made them muscle-bound.
History of the American Negro in the Great World War | W. Allison SweeneyA heavy-set man, with the muscle-bound shoulders of an ape, was lighting a fire in the stove.
The Sheriff's Son | William MacLeod RaineI made a clumsy climb of about five hundred feet, my muscles being "muscle-bound" all the time with rigidity from electricity.
Wild Life on the Rockies | Enos A. MillsMost writers at the start are mentally muscle-bound, and poorly coordinated.
The Armed Forces Officer | U. S. Department of Defense
British Dictionary definitions for muscle-bound
having overdeveloped and inelastic muscles
lacking flexibility
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