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fortifyverb to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionallyKelly fortified herself for the basketball tournament with a series of confidence-boosting exercises brace, forearm, nerve, poise, psych (up), ready, steel, strengthen armharden, inure, season, toughenbolster, boost, buoy (up), buttress, enforce, prop (up), reinforce(also reenforce), support, sustaincheer (up), comfort, embolden, encourage, hearten, inspirerally, rouse, stir daunt, demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, psych (out), shake, unnervedebilitate, enervate, enfeeble, prostrate, sap, soften, tire, undercut, undermine, weaken to increase the ability of (as a muscle) to exert physical forcehe downed another granola bar to fortify himself for the rest of the bike ride beef (up), harden, strengthen, toughen anneal, temperfirm (up), tone (up)energize, invigorate, vitalizerestrengthen debilitate, enervate, enfeeble, weaken cripple, incapacitate, paralyzedamage, harm, hurt, impair, injurebreak down, wear outsap, undercut, undermine to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposurebought lots of warm clothing to fortify ourselves against the cold harden, indurate, inure, season, steel, strengthen, toughen acclimate, acclimatize, adapt, adjustanneal, temperinvigorate, vitalizeimmunizebolster, boost, brace, buttress, enforce, forearm, prop (up), reinforce(also reenforce), supportbreak in, limber (up), trainaccustom, condition, habituate, naturalize soften emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, sap, weakencripple, debilitate, hamstring, incapacitatesensitize in the 15th century |