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steelingverbpresent participle of steel to fill with courage or strength of purposehoped that his inspirational talk would steel the youths in the pursuit of their dreams bearing up, bucking up, buoying (up), cheering (up), chirking (up), emboldening, encouraging, heartening, inspiring, inspiriting animating, enlivening, invigoratingenforcing, fortifying, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningassuring, reassuringboosting, energizing, exciting, galvanizing, provoking, quickening, rallying, stimulating, stirring daunting, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting demoralizing, depressing, saddeningdebilitating, enfeebling, hamstringing, undermining, weakeningintimidating, psyching (out) to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposureyears of running a farm had steeled the hard-bitten woman fortifying, hardening, indurating, inuring, seasoning, 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 to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionallyhe had spent the previous night steeling himself for the moment when he would demand a raise bracing, forearming, fortifying, nerving, poising, psyching (up), readying, 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 |