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fortifyingverbpresent participle of fortify to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionallyKelly fortified herself for the basketball tournament with a series of confidence-boosting exercises bracing, forearming, nerving, poising, psyching (up), readying, steeling, strengthening arminghardening, inuring, seasoning, tougheningbolstering, boosting, buoying (up), buttressing, enforcing, propping (up), reinforcing(also reenforcing), supporting, sustainingcheering (up), comforting, emboldening, encouraging, heartening, inspiringrallying, rousing, stirring daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, psyching (out), shaking, unnervingdebilitating, enervating, enfeebling, prostrating, sapping, softening, tiring, undercutting, undermining, weakening 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 beefing (up), hardening, strengthening, toughening annealing, temperingfirming (up), toning (up)energizing, invigorating, vitalizingrestrengthening debilitating, enervating, enfeebling, weakening crippling, incapacitating, paralyzingdamaging, harming, hurting, impairing, injuringbreaking down, wearing outsapping, undercutting, undermining to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposurebought lots of warm clothing to fortify ourselves against the cold hardening, indurating, inuring, seasoning, steeling, strengthening, toughening acclimating, acclimatizing, adapting, adjustingannealing, temperinginvigorating, vitalizingimmunizingbolstering, boosting, bracing, buttressing, enforcing, forearming, propping (up), reinforcing(also reenforcing), supportingbreaking in, limbering (up), trainingaccustoming, conditioning, habituating, naturalizing softening emasculating, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, sapping, weakeningcrippling, debilitating, hamstringing, incapacitatingsensitizing |