| 单词 | strengthen |
| 例句 | strengthen verb 1.•calcium strengthens growing bones:fortify, make strong/stronger, build up, give strength to. ANT weaken. 2.•engineers strengthened the walls:reinforce, make stronger, buttress, shore up, underpin. 3.•how does this process strengthen the glass? toughen, temper, anneal. 4.•the wind had strengthened:become strong/stronger, gain strength, intensify, pick up. ANT die down. 5.•his insistence strengthened her determination:fortify, bolster, make stronger, boost, reinforce, harden, stiffen, toughen, fuel. ANT weaken. 6.•they strengthened their efforts:redouble, step up, increase, escalate | informal up, crank up, beef up. ANT relax, decrease. 7.•the argument is strengthened by this evidence:reinforce, lend more weight to | support, substantiate, back up, confirm, bear out, corroborate. ANT undermine. |
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