Definitions
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- verb To engage in
weightlifting ; to lift weights to develop strength.
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- verb lift weights
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Examples
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She really doesn't want to be caught at this, Gomez says, trying to find redemption, and one of the new uniforms, a woman, well and strongly built, thighs intended for weight-lift squatting, says, Possible she's a personal trainer.
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Which is not a complete admission of laziness on my part: I run up and down the stairs, picking up the detritus that a male household scatters around them; I load and unload the dishwasher and washing-machine with tiresome regularity; I rake dead leaves, empty rubbish bins, fill recycling boxes and weight-lift large bags of shopping containing the necessary quantities of food for my rugby-playing sons.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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According to earlier reports, Ukrainian and Russian companies taking part in a program to restart the serial production of An-124-100M-150 planes with a weight-lift ability of 150 tonnes plan to finish work on all of the project's technological issues before 2010.
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We had to weight-lift and stuff, and I got it in my mind, because I’m the youngest guy, that I’m going to make a statement to this workout.
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Now I stretch a lot more, weight-lift, golf, walk a lot, "he says.
unknown title 2009
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