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High-powered   /haɪ-pˈaʊərd/   Listen
adjective
high-powered, high-power  adj.  
1.
Vigorously energetic or forceful. "High-powered executives"
Synonyms: high-octane, high-voltage.
2.
Capable of a high degree of magnification; used of optical instruments such as microscopes or telescopes. "A high-powered microscope"





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"High-powered" Quotes from Famous Books



... afraid of being ambushed by Forrest," said Warner, speaking from a swollen countenance. "Instead we struck something worse; we rode straight into an ambush of ten billion high-powered mosquitoes, every one tipped with fire. Have we got enemies like these to fight all ...
— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler
... shuddering tug the sand began to tremble and in a rush the wave was upon him. It buried him deep and as he leapt from his machine little rills of singing sand flowed around it. So far it had carried him, this high-powered, steel-springed racer; but now he must leave it for the sand to cover over and cross the great Valley alone. On many a rocky slope and sliding sand-hill it had clutched and plunged and fought its way, but now it was smothered in the treacherous, silt-fine sand and he must leave it, like ...
— Shadow Mountain • Dane Coolidge
... was peculiar. Josephine looked quickly at him, through her enveloping veils. He was staring at the road ahead—as the driver of a high-powered motor through April mud must do, of course—yet his sister thought she detected a curious compression of the lips not due wholly to the strain of driving ...
— Strawberry Acres • Grace S. Richmond
... arrangements for the visit to the headquarters of the real anarchist leader. Burke telephoned for a high-powered car, while Miss Lowe told frankly of the habits of Annenberg and the chances of finding his place unguarded, which were good in the daytime. Kennedy's only equipment for the excursion consisted in a small package which he took from a cabinet at the end of the room, ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve
... time. Such shots would have blown them both in two, unprotected as they were by spacesuits. The small handgun merely jangled their nerves with a high-powered blast of accurately beamed supersonics. While they were still twitching, he went over and jabbed them with a ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett


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