STRONG-ARM Synonyms

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• a hired thug

• excellent

• be bossy towards

• discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• force somebody to do something

• necessitate or exact

• a powerful effect or influence

• (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

• physical energy or intensity

• group of people willing to obey orders

• a unit that is part of some military service

• an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

• one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

• a group of people having the power of effective action

• (of a law) having legal validity

• a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

• move with force

• impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

• force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

• do forcibly; exert force

• take by force

• annoy continually or chronically

• exhaust by attacking repeatedly

• any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears

• someone who is morally reprehensible

• pursue or chase relentlessly

• make timid or fearful

• to compel or deter by or as if by threats

• come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

• cause to suffer

• the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)

• a force that compels

• the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure

• the state of demanding notice or attention

• the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin

• an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress

• the pressure exerted by the atmosphere

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• exert pressure on someone through threats

• be bossy towards

• be bossy towards

• impelled by physical force especially against resistance

• (Greek mythology) a mythical Trojan who was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War

• be bossy towards

• involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit

• relating to the sciences dealing with matter and energy; especially physics

• having substance or material existence; perceptible to the senses

• according with material things or natural laws (other than those peculiar to living matter)

• characterized by energetic bodily activity

• impelled by physical force especially against resistance

• concerned with material things

• be bossy towards

• be bossy towards