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strengthening 音標拼音: [str'ɛŋθənɪŋ] 強化; 加固 強化; 加固 strengthening n 1: becoming stronger [ ant: { weakening}] 2: the act of increasing the strength of something [ ant: { weakening}] 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]
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] 69 Moby Thesaurus words for " strengthening": 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
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