Crossword clues for physically
physically
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
physically
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mentally/physically frail
physically active
▪ You need to become more physically active and eat less.
physically challenged
physically exhausted
▪ After the climb, both men were physically exhausted.
physically fit
▪ He was young, good-looking, and physically fit.
physically impossible
▪ It is physically impossible to survive for long in the desert without water.
physically/emotionally/intellectually etc demanding
▪ Climbing is physically demanding.
physically/emotionally/sexually mature
▪ Most girls are sexually mature by about 14 years of age.
physically/mentally disabled
▪ If you are elderly or physically disabled, massage can be beneficial.
sexually/physically abused
▪ She was sexually abused as a child.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
able
▪ I am compelled to get involved in praying for those who are physically able to do the work that I can not.
active
▪ The only alternative, says Professor Durnin, is to try to burn up more energy by being physically active.
▪ Almost nobody physically active is too young or too old to learn.
▪ People had to be much more physically active in those days.
▪ What's the best way to make adults be more physically active?
▪ More people had physically active jobs.
▪ Pete and Carrie are able to travel some, but are not as physically active as they would like.
▪ If you are physically active at work or in leisure time, you can eat slightly more fat.
attractive
▪ He was physically attractive and highly photogenic; on the television screen he came across as a man of warmth and charm.
▪ I think I said I couldn't imagine ever finding her physically attractive.
▪ And please, make him physically attractive to me.
▪ She desired him, she found him physically attractive to a degree that still had the power to surprise her.
▪ She found him physically attractive, but his languid, elegant and mannered demeanour irritated her.
capable
▪ And given that he was physically capable, why?
▪ If that means the hunt is limited to those physically capable of the trek, then so be it.
▪ In principle, after 1834, those who were physically capable of work were left no option but to support themselves.
▪ It only left one problem, which minster is physically capable of carrying a struggling woman upstairs in a fireman's lift?
demanding
▪ It is very physically demanding and you know, you have to work hard to be good at it.
▪ Ufford Park offers a stern test without being too physically demanding.
▪ Life on a yacht, even one as well equipped as this, was far more physically demanding than she had ever imagined.
▪ A third change, and probably the most physically demanding, is to introduce weights into the routine.
▪ Employees have often found their work with new machines less physically demanding and have often regarded it as more skilled.
disabled
▪ Each centre will be designed to help even the most physically disabled or confused people move around and orient themselves easily.
▪ A further day is proposed on the subject of teaching the elderly and/or physically disabled.
▪ Design Detailed personal interview and physical assessment of physically disabled adults; personal or telephone interview with carers.
▪ It's a genetic condition which means she's been physically disabled from birth.
▪ They contain fewer households with cars, more mentally and physically disabled and more of those with limited educational qualifications.
▪ One employs 12 care assistants, whose services are provided free to physically disabled clients.
▪ Dementia prevalence is higher among those who are physically disabled.
fit
▪ Questions will be asked, even if they are not asked publicly, about whether he is physically fit to continue in office.
▪ He must have been physically fit to survive the punishing schedule to which he submitted himself.
▪ A person with odd knowledge, odd skills, physically fit.
▪ For these reasons industry is moving towards a concept of the ideal worker as a physically fit adaptable young person.
▪ Singing the booking form shows that you believe yourself and your companions to be physically fit and healthy to take part.
▪ There are numerous flights of stairs, therefore the tour is only suitable for reasonably physically fit people.
frail
▪ He was physically frail, but mentally clear.
handicapped
▪ The physically handicapped youngster faces severe problems in finding employment.
▪ Dozens of teenage volunteers were bussed in on Tuesday evening for a dance with mentally and physically handicapped patients.
▪ In addition there were another 550 schools for physically handicapped pupils which would include some mentally handicapped pupils who are also physically handicapped.
▪ That means meeting the needs of the exceptionally gifted as well as those of the physically handicapped and socially deprived.
▪ The venue is home to about 200 mentally and physically handicapped students.
▪ It has made physically handicapped people keen to stress that they are not mentally handicapped, not stupid.
▪ This preparation eased the way for further integration of physically handicapped children into the mixed ability secondary school.
▪ People are keen to applaud the successes of physically handicapped people who gain successful academic qualifications, and acquire practical skills.
ill
▪ It focuses particularly on his creation and the actions of his creation which cause Frankenstein' to become mentally and eventually physically ill.
▪ I was physically ill the day before I met her because I was so nervous!
▪ She tried to imagine them in bed together, and found that the thought made her feel physically ill.
▪ Some one who is more severely depressed may feel physically ill as well as gloomy.
▪ If we are physically ill, is there perhaps an emotional cause for the illness?
▪ Clients may not be physically ill, but there should be provision for care in the appropriate environment if required.
impossible
▪ They were just physically impossible to move in and out of the studios.
▪ The illogical, unlikely and physically impossible are treated as natural phenomena.
▪ His hypothesis, while unlikely, is neither logically nor physically impossible.
▪ But he realized that this was physically impossible.
▪ By the power of his imagination he was trying to do something that was physically impossible.
painful
▪ While it is not physically painful it is certainly psychologically aversive.
▪ The physically painful engrams cover up later emotional charges.
▪ Emotional charges cover up physically painful engrams.
▪ A condition of such painful emotion is that it has early physically painful engrams upon which to append.
▪ It must have been physically painful.
possible
▪ Also, it isn't physically possible to sit and listen to a rap album all the way through.
present
▪ Other ways exist to see the Goddess as physically present in the land.
sick
▪ Sabine felt physically sick as she watched her go.
▪ She was feeling almost physically sick with nerves, and increasingly plagued by tension headaches.
▪ Spencer lifted his arms in a flamboyant gesture and Emily felt physically sick at the mere thought of marrying him.
▪ I felt physically sick all the time and unable to eat but I was able to keep going.
▪ I can remember walking away, swearing that I would never do this again, feeling physically sick.
▪ She is actually physically sick by her revulsion at her thought that she killed her husband.
▪ He was forced to train until he was physically sick.
▪ Women offenders were, it was argued, mentally and physically sick, or possibly both.
strong
▪ Are you athletic or physically strong?
▪ To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
▪ But the see of London is work for the physically strong, not for declining energy.
▪ The argument that an imperial power needed physically strong and virile rulers convinced many female anti-suffragists.
▪ A mis-used gadget will only make problems worse by forcing a horse into a shape before he is physically strong enough.
▪ He had also warned them that the guy was physically strong, and that he had a kink for cutting his victims.
▪ With older, physically strong, resistive children, time-out may simply not be feasible.
▪ Though most men are physically stronger than most women, it is women who are expected routinely to carry heavy loads.
weak
▪ What she saw made Doctor Nell Anderson physically weak.
▪ But if they are physically weak, the old guard remain politically strong.
▪ Feeling physically weak or out of shape also wears away your sense of personal efficacy.
▪ Applicants are first interviewed, to weed out the physically weak, violent and unstable.
▪ Did he want to be morally strong because he was physically weak?
▪ A man without the support of machinery is physically weak and informationally slow.
■ VERB
abuse
▪ Even though he never physically abused me, the verbal abuse was frightening.
▪ He claimed that both parents psychologically and physically abused him.
▪ In 1986, a father of fifteen children then living in South Ronaldsay was jailed for physically abusing them.
▪ Boyle cited a recent example of an elderly woman who was being physically abused.
▪ He talked of his harsh, unsympathetic upbringing in which his often drunken father physically abused his wife and children.
▪ BWhile not physically abused, Tamika, like most children of addicts, is emotionally starved.
▪ My stepfather was strict and didn't let us have friends in the house; he physically abused me but not sexually.
▪ A constellation of social difficulties has also been found to characterise parents who severely physically abuse their children.
assault
▪ They had demanded the release of political prisoners and had reportedly been physically assaulted.
▪ Although all the victims obeyed the intruders' orders, one man was physically assaulted, said Deputy Benita Nichol.
attack
▪ One in eight had been physically attacked.
▪ It was the first time Simon had ever physically attacked anybody.
▪ His reward is to have been reviled, misrepresented and physically attacked.
become
▪ Very often teenager girls become physically inhibited.
▪ In the extreme, parents can even become physically abusive.
▪ But the weaker I became physically, the more inadequate I felt.
▪ In a very real sense the global economy has become physically embodied in our ports, airports, and tele-communications systems.
challenge
▪ And everywhere, blind and physically challenged skiers are testing themselves on the snow.
demand
▪ There should be time in his life for activities that are more physically demanding.
▪ From now on, traveling would not only be more physically demanding, it would be lonelier as well.
disable
▪ Also patron of beggars, hermits, horses, the physically disabled, and the woods.
▪ Physically disabled students, some of whom wear diapers, are changed in a room that has no hot water.
▪ I had a man who was retarded and who was also severely disabled physically.
exhaust
▪ The events of the last year had left her mentally drained while she was physically exhausted because of her chronic illness.
▪ They began sleeping in separate beds, and he never retired until physically exhausted.
▪ This left us physically exhausted much of the time.
▪ I was so mentally and physically exhausted, my only response was to roll over and go back to sleep.
▪ They are not just physically exhausted from the Stanford game, they are mentally spent as well.
feel
▪ Walking down the steps outside the Lodge to the van, I felt physically wrecked.
▪ This is an essential foundation for a child who is feeling physically overwhelmed by the world.
▪ Sabine felt physically sick as she watched her go.
▪ I felt physically threatened, attacked.
▪ She felt physically fitter and more alive than she could ever remember.
▪ She tried to imagine them in bed together, and found that the thought made her feel physically ill.
▪ It was such gently acid mockery, she felt physically flayed under that worldly amusement.
▪ Spencer lifted his arms in a flamboyant gesture and Emily felt physically sick at the mere thought of marrying him.
handicap
▪ This is despite Wesley being severely physically handicapped, suspected of some deafness and suffering from dyslexia.
▪ During one such period Carol had worked at a center for retraining physically handicapped adults.
▪ Mentally and physically handicapped do light work according to their capability, but get the same wages as everybody else.
▪ It is even possible for them to find out about recreational equipment for physically handicapped learners, for example.
mature
▪ The teenage years cover a period in which young women and men mature physically, intellectually and emotionally.
▪ Voice over Obviously he has a long way to mature physically, but he's surpassed our hopes.
separate
▪ Mothers often tell us how valuable the pictures are for keeping some contact with their infants while being physically separated. 5.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
visually/physically/mentally etc challenged
▪ And everywhere, blind and physically challenged skiers are testing themselves on the snow.
▪ So there are these three visually challenged yuppies at the zoo, checking out their first elephant.
▪ The organisation as a whole became sensitised to the many debates which faced women artists who were physically challenged.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As a child, she had been physically and emotionally abused.
▪ People say I'm like my mother, but physically I look more like my father.
▪ Police physically removed Ms. Sanders from City Hall.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Discover how and when and why you tire physically and mentally.
▪ Fighting either of them would have been a cultural impossibility, physically unthinkable.
▪ Get enough exercise during the day to be physically as well as mentally tired.
▪ He abused her both physically and emotionally until his death.
▪ It is relevant to note here the author's inclusion of scenes of a physically titillating dimension.
▪ The demonstrators offered no resistance and none were physically removed from the site.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Physically
Physically \Phys"ic*al*ly\, adv. In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally.
I am not now treating physically of light or colors.
--Locke.
2. According to the rules of medicine. [Obs.]
He that lives physically must live miserably.
--Cheyne.
Wiktionary
physically
adv. 1 In a physical manner. 2 According to the laws of physics. 3 Using physical force. 4 (context obsolete English) According to the rules of medicine.
WordNet
physically
adv. in accord with physical laws; "it is physically impossible"
Usage examples of "physically".
Her heart pounding so violently she physically shook, Abigail clawed at his arm.
Will pegged as physically being able to visit those other realms, he had a hard time accepting their existence and his ability to travel to them.
So, though Rosemary West may have physically abused him, neither she nor her husband were anxious to relinquish Steven McAvoy once he was in her hands.
Mari Ado, ex of the Little Blue Bugs, was criminally competent in a number of insurgency roles that had nothing to do with wavecraft, and for that matter no less well endowed physically than a number of the other female bodies in the room, Virginia Vidaura included.
The best answer is that a brochure creates the drama of an advertisement but delivers a more complete sales message that can be retained physically as wen as mentally.
Council members physically present, other than Obi-Wan and Anakin, were Mace Windu and Agen Kolar.
From the habit of fifty years all this had a physically agitating effect on the old general.
There will be times, increasingly frequent, when she is physically unable to effect her own, ahem, necessary functions.
On the contrary love, the active state of Ahimsa, requires you to resist the wrong-doer by dissociating yourself from him even though it may offend him or injure him physically.
Second, he must recover the fighting qualities of an airman and therefore develop himself physically by such gymnastic exercises as a bedridden man is capable of doing.
Billy Anker, dressed in a vintage EV suit, was shuffling head down towards it with all the grim patience of the physically unfit.
Physically present in their holographic midst, the elected representatives of the Arachnos, Sectae and Herculeans moved with anxious precision.
A sort of wild, rangy presence, not physically threatening to a grown man perhaps, but he could understand how he was able to dominate his roommate Beano, and to attract a tasty wee girl like that Andrina, even though she was a few years older than him.
And even if Cohen got by them, Kolodny would still be physically jacked in to the lab mainframe, vulnerable to whatever wet bugs and bioactive code the system threw at her.
Shaq can be the most physically powerful player in the game, Chris Rock maintains, but Jerry Buss will always have the power, and I decided at this crossroads that I would seek that same position of power.