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Meanings of powerful in English

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poderoso

Having great power or force or potency or effect.

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      poderoso

      (Of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful.

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            The most common type of physical abuse was forceful downward abdominal pressure.
            Reuters
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            Unanimity in the mind is the primary factor in a forceful life.
            My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
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            But a number of other business leaders derided it in forceful terms.
            Reuters
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            Justice Elena Kagan offered the most forceful opposition to Marotta's proposed test.
            Reuters
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            Certainly he is forceful and prone to interfere in other ministers' portfolios.
            The Guardian
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            Pyrethroid tolerance was not associated with a significant increase of knock-down times.
            Pubmed
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            However, miR-378 knock-down promoted these processes and enhanced the expression of vimentin.
            Pubmed
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            Food and drink was being sold in the shops at knock-down prices.
            With British Guns in Italy: A Tribute to Italian Achievement
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            In fact we even had one of our inevitable knock-down logistical fights.
            The cactus eaters: how I lost my mind-and almost found myself-on...
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            Photo: Andrew Burr After fighting knock-down winds and sub-freezing temperatures on Mt.
            Climbing Magazine

            (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree.

                  Having great influence.

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                        Usage of powerful in English
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                        I believe those who are most powerful use their power for good.
                        Ebony
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                        Skelos is the second powerful legislative leader to stand trial this year.
                        Reuters
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                        Iran is more powerful today than if Saddam been left in power.
                        The Guardian
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                        For that to actually happen, powerful countries need to be held accountable.
                        The Guardian
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                        Vaccines are probably the most powerful public health intervention available to us.
                        The Guardian
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                        A new Europe, he thought ironically, a powerful federation of dynamic states.
                        The Young Lions
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                        However, researchers said that vaccines could prove more powerful than natural immunity.
                        Independent.ie
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                        The powerful centre presents a clear and present danger to Ireland's hopes.
                        The Irish Times
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                        They need more powerful incentives to work with people when it's possible.
                        Reuters
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                        In those days, whatever powerful people said and did was considered news.
                        The new yorker
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                        NMR methods are therefore powerful aids to understanding plant metabolism and physiology.
                        Pubmed
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                        Men who are truly powerful, however, view threats as yet another vulnerability.
                        Paul of dune
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                        Europeans want mainly to balance relations between powerful West and rising East.
                        The Irish Times
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                        A weak government is an easy target when powerful groups come calling.
                        The Irish Times
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                        Eleven years ago Oliver Stone made a powerful motion picture called JFK.
                        The Guardian
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                        Europe is a powerful enough bloc to implement such a radical programme.
                        The Guardian
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                        poderoso
                        Powerful through the time
                        Powerful across language varieties
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