A Topical Dictionary: Search for strengthening

Dictionary Results For "strengthening" [?]/[OPML]

Ads By Google

Wiktionary Articles [RSS] - [GNU, www.Wiktionary.org]

English

Verb

strengthening

io:strengthening pl:strengthening te:strengthening vi:strengthening

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Strengthen \Strength"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Strengthened; p.
pr. & vb. n. Strengthening.]
1. 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.
[1913 Webster]

Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . .
With powerful policy strengthen themselves. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

2. To animate; to encourage; to fix in resolution.
[1913 Webster]

Charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen
him. --Deut. iii.
28.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: To invigorate; confirm; establish; fortify; animate;
encourage.
[1913 Webster]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Strengthening \Strength"en*ing\, a.
That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. --
Strength"en*ing*ly, adv.
[1913 Webster]

Strengthening plaster (Med.), a plaster containing iron,
and supposed to have tonic effects.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet strengthening
adj : invigorating physically or mentally [syn: fortifying]
n 1: becoming stronger [ant: weakening]
2: the act of increasing the strength of something [ant: weakening]

Moby Dictionary
accelerando , acceleration , affirmation , aggravation , analeptic ,
attestation , authentication , backing , backing up , bearing out ,
beefing-up , blowing up , blowup , bolstering , bracing , buttressing ,
case hardening , certification , circumstantiation , concentration ,
condensation , confirmation , consolidation , corroborant ,
corroboration , corroboratory evidence , deepening , documentation ,
enhancement , exacerbation , exaggeration , explosion , fortification ,
hardening , heating-up , heightening , information explosion ,
intensification , invigorating , invigoration , magnification , pickup ,
population explosion , proof , proving , proving out , ratification ,
redoubling , refreshing , refreshment , reinforcement , reinvigoration ,
restorative , restrengthening , revivification , reviving , roborant ,
speedup , step-up , stimulating , substantiation , support ,
supporting evidence , tempering , tightening , tonic , undergirding ,
validation , verification