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strengtheningverbpresent participle of strengthen to increase the ability of (as a muscle) to exert physical forcelifting weights every day will eventually strengthen your muscles the army makes new recruits run for miles in order to strengthen them beefing (up), fortifying, hardening, 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 exposurerequired weeks of physical therapy to strengthen his arm enough to pitch for the team again fortifying, hardening, indurating, inuring, seasoning, steeling, 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 make markedly greater in measure or degreeencouraged the boarding school students to strengthen their ties with the community by doing public service accentuating, amping (up), amplifying, beefing (up), boosting, consolidating, deepening, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifying, redoubling, stepping up broadening, enlarging, expanding, extending, lengtheningaccelerating, hastening, quickeningemphasizing, pointing (up), sharpening, stressingaugmenting, enforcing, reinforcing(also reenforcing), restrengthening, supplementingmaximizingenlivening, jazzing (up)aggravating, exacerbating abating, moderating decreasing, diminishing, lessening, letting up (on), reducing, subduing, toning (down), weakeningdwindling, receding, subsiding, tapering (off), waningalleviating, easing, lightening to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionallystrengthened herself for the moment she'd have to tell her friend that she had lost the borrowed necklace bracing, forearming, fortifying, nerving, poising, psyching (up), readying, steeling 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 make more harsh, uncompromising, or severea bill was introduced to strengthen punishments for hate crimes hardening, harshening, stiffening, toughening ameliorating, easing lessening, moderating, softening |