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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."

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Etymology of 'Strengthen'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Strengthen" Quotes from Famous Books

... and their other stated festivals, the people assembled for the mutual confession of their sins. "The meeting was opened by one of the 'keepers of the faith,' with an address upon the propriety and importance of acknowledging their evil deeds to strengthen their minds against future temptations. He then took a string of white wampum in his hand, and set the example by a confession of his own faults, after which he handed the string to the one nearest to him, who received it, made his confession in like ...

— Wampum - A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society - of Philadelphia • Ashbel Woodward

... was wealthy. His father, a former manufacturer of canned goods, had left him a fortune that he administered prudently, never gambling, nor keeping mistresses (he had no time for such follies) but finding all his amusement in sports that strengthen the body. He had a coach-house of his own, where he kept his carriages and his automobiles which he showed to his friends with the satisfaction of an artist. It was his museum. Besides, he owned several ...

— Woman Triumphant - (La Maja Desnuda) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... of the Great Spirit," said the stranger. "You have wrestled manfully. To-morrow will be the seventh day of your fasting, your father will give you food to strengthen you, and as it is the last day of trial, you will prevail. I know this, and now tell you what you must do to benefit your family and your tribe. To-morrow," he repeated, "I shall meet you and wrestle with you for the last time; and, as soon as you have prevailed against me, you will strip ...

— Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know • Various

... wealth of epithets and metaphors. The poets love to dwell on the mystic powers of this wonderful potion, which can heal sickness of soul and body and inspire gods and men to mighty deeds and holy ecstasy. Most often they tell how the god Indra drank huge potions of it to strengthen himself for his great fight with the dragon Vritra. Most of this worship is of priestly invention; voluminous as its rhetoric is, it makes no great impression on the laity, nor perhaps on the clergy either. Some of the more ingenious of the priests are already beginning to trace an affinity between ...

— Hindu Gods And Heroes - Studies in the History of the Religion of India • Lionel D. Barnett

... incapacity of man's mind, but it is the remote standing or placing thereof that breedeth these mazes and incomprehensions; for as the sense afar off is full of mistaking, but is exact at hand, so is it of the understanding, the remedy whereof is, not to quicken or strengthen the organ, but to go nearer to the object; and therefore there is no doubt but if the physicians will learn and use the true approaches and avenues of nature, they may assume as ...

— The Advancement of Learning • Francis Bacon

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