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• v  tie with a strap
• v  beat severely with a whip or rod
• v  sharpen with a strap
• v  secure (a sprained joint) with a strap
• s  muscular and heavily built
  a strapping boy of eighteen

• A strapping Conan: the Barbarian kind of guy with a friggin' enormous personality.
• Young, strapping men armed with crowbars knocked spaghetti, oranges and hunks of meat onto the floor as they rushed to scoop up groceries.
• Logan Wells, a strapping 14-year-old, reads The Little Engine That Could to Alec Matias and Jacob Hill.

• strap
• flog
• welt
• whip
• lather
• lash
• slash
• trounce
• beefy
• burly
• husky
• buirdly

• unstrap

News & Articles

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• Amid Gitmo strike, ex-detainee tells of force-feed
  GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — For more than three months, the U.S. military has faced off with defiant prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, strapping down as many as 44 each day to feed them a liquid nutrient mix through a nasal tube to prevent them from starving to death.
  June 15, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• As hunger strike roils Guantanamo, ex-prisoner talks of his long protest and forced feeding
  GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — For more than three months, the U.S. military has faced off with defiant prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, strapping down as many as 43 each day to feed them a liquid nutrient mix through a nasal tube to prevent them from starving to death.
  June 15, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• Amid Gitmo strike, ex-detainee tells of force-feed - NBC40.net
  GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - For more than three months, the U.S. military has faced off with defiant prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, strapping down as many as 43 each day to feed them a liquid nutrient mix through a nasal tube to prevent them from starving to death.
  June 15, 2013 - NBC40 South Jersey

Quotes

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• Bob Costas in SportingNews.com
  As anyone can plainly see, I'm 5-61/2 and a strapping 150, and unlike some people, I came by all of it naturally,Costas said Thursday in a telephone interview.
• John Terry in Sportinglife.com
  My elbow is all right,said Terry. "There is just a bit of strapping in case I fall and jar it. The last couple of days it has been getting better and hopefully I am going to train without the strapping. I have full range of movement. It is...
• Muhammad Ijaz-ul-Haq in Times Online
  If somebody has to attack by strapping bombs to his body to protect the honour of the Prophet then it is justified,Mr ul-Haq told the National Assembly.