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/strˈɛŋθənɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Strengthen v. t. (past & past part. strengthened; pres. part. strengthening)

To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority. "Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest,... With powerful policy strengthen themselves."

To animate; to encourage; to fix in resolution. "Charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him."

Synonyms: To invigorate; confirm; establish; fortify; animate; encourage.

Strengthen v. i. To grow strong or stronger. "The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength."

adjective

Strengthening adj. That strengthens; giving or increasing strength.

Strengthening plaster (Med.), a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... known only to the natives, to bring us news of open movement or of secret plots among the Secessionists. They were organized, also, in their own fashion, and every neighborhood could muster its company or its squad of home-guards to join in quelling seditious outbreaks or in strengthening a little column sent against any of the enemy's outposts. No considerable hostile movement was possible within a range of thirty miles without our having timely notice of it. The smoke from the camp-fires of a single troop of horse ...

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