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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Strengthen \Strength"en\, verb (used with an object) [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.
Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves. --Shak.
2. To animate; to encourage; to fix in resolution.
Charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him. --Deut. iii. 28.
Syn: To invigorate; confirm; establish; fortify; animate; encourage.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
strengthened
adjective: given added strength or support; "reinforced concrete contains steel bars or metal netting" [syn: {reinforced}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "strengthened": accelerated, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, backed, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, crusted, crusty, crystallized, deepened, elevated, enhanced, enlarged, expanded, extended, fossilized, granulated, hardened, heightened, hiked, hornified, increased, incrusted, indurate, indurated, inflated, intensified, jazzed up, lapidified, magnified, multiplied, ossified, petrified, proliferated, raised, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, spread, steeled, stiffened, swollen, tightened, toughened, vitrified, widened
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