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| NOUN: | Something that physically confines the legs or arms. Used in plural: bond, chain (used in plural), fetter, handcuff (often used in plural), hobble, manacle, restraint, shackle. Archaic : gyve. See FREE. | | VERB: | To smooth by applying heat and pressure: mangle2, press. See SMOOTH. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Full of vigor: able-bodied, lusty, red-blooded, robust, strapping, sturdy, vigorous, vital. See STRONG. 2. Firmly, often unreasonably immovable in purpose or will: adamant, adamantine, brassbound, die-hard, grim, implacable, incompliant, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, obdurate, relentless, remorseless, rigid, stubborn, unbendable, unbending, uncompliant, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding. Idioms: stubborn as a mule (or ox) . See RESIST.
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