muscle-bound

1. 1.

   having stiff muscles as the result of excessive exercise

   “he arrived accompanied by two muscle-bound body guards”

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Questions about muscle-bound

What does muscle-bound mean?

muscle-bound means "having stiff muscles as the result of excessive exercise".

How many syllables are in muscle-bound?

muscle-bound has 3 syllables: mus-cle--bound. The stress falls on "mus".

Is muscle-bound a common word?

muscle-bound is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.