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(obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.

# Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.

# Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.

Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.

# Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.

# (informal) Gross, disgusting, foul.

(horse racing) Headstrong; difficult to control.

(intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.

📑 Synonyms: thorough virulent

(obsolete) lustful; lascivious

(obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

(row) A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.

(horizontal line) (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).

(music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.

One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.

(class) The level of one's position in a class-based society.

(typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.

(military) A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.

(taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.

(mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.

(matrix) (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.

(algebra) The maximum quantity of ''D''-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain ''D'').

(mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.

To place abreast, or in a line.

To have a ranking.

To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.

(US) To take rank of; to outrank.