Synonyms for sinew
ˈsɪn yusinew

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1. tendon, sinewnoun

   a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment

   Synonyms:
   muscle, tendon, muscularity, brawniness, brawn, heftiness

2. brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftinessnoun

   possessing muscular strength

   Synonyms:
   vigor, musculus, muscularity, massiveness, tendon, energy, heftiness, vim, ponderosity, ponderousness, muscle, muscleman, brawn, brawniness, heft, muscular tissue, vigour

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1. • Connective Tissue

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1. ligament

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1. sinewnoun

   Synonyms:
   tendon

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1. sinewnoun

   Synonyms:
   tendon, muscle, thew

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1. List of paraphrases for "sinew":

   tendon

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. sinew

   Synonyms:
   Tendon
   

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How to use sinew in a sentence?

1. Rudyard Kipling:

   If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them 'Hold on'

2. John Burroughs, The Snow-Walkers:

   The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

3. John Burroughs:

   The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

4. Thomas Fuller:

   Money is the sinew of love as well as war.