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Strengthening

noun

Becoming stronger.

The act of increasing the strength of something.

Strengthen

verb

(past & past part. strengthened; pres. part. strengthening)

Make strong or stronger. Synonyms: beef up, fortify. "Strengthen the relations between the two countries"

Gain strength.

Give a healthy elasticity to. Synonyms: tone, tone up.

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"Strengthening" Quotes from Famous Books

... may be a danger that we underrate the value of formalism itself. It spells routine, but routine is not without value in the strengthening of character. The private citizen, who conscientiously day by day had carried out the worship of his household gods and month by month observed the sacred abstinence from work on the days of festival, was certainly not less fitted to take his place as a member of a strenuous ...

— The Religion of Ancient Rome • Cyril Bailey

... had passed, when the scouts brought in the information that the Spaniards were advancing. Still two or three days must elapse before they could reach Popayan. The interval was spent in strengthening the fortifications, and otherwise preparing for the defence of the city. Provisions were brought in, and gunpowder and shot manufactured, while the drilling of the men went on as energetically as at first. White men, Indians, and blacks, all seemed to take a real pleasure ...

— In New Granada - Heroes and Patriots • W.H.G. Kingston

... instantly took out another share. You could have as many shares as you chose. Though the Society was chiefly nourished by respectable artisans with stiff chins, nobody in the district would have considered membership to be beneath him. The Society was an admirable device for strengthening an impulse towards thrift, because, once you had put yourself into its machinery, it would stand no nonsense. Prosperous tradesmen would push their children into it, and even themselves. This was what ...

— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett

... flimsily built." He paused for thought. "We could maybe put a tenth of a gee on the axis, but I better check some of the stress figures against the structural pattern with the Cow first. We'll have to give some thought to strengthening things later, if we really want to go into the fantastic possibility of landing ...

— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond

... His Majesty's Government has placed in me, in granting the privilege of personally witnessing the state of my brethren in Russia. The influence which I flatter myself that I have with them, I have exercised for the purpose of strengthening them in their continual efforts to meet the wishes of His ...

— Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I • Sir Moses Montefiore

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