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beefed (up)verbpast tense of beef (up) to increase the ability of (as a muscle) to exert physical forcebeefed up the walls with iron bars fortified, hardened, strengthened, toughened annealed, temperedfirmed (up), toned (up)energized, invigorated, vitalizedrestrengthened debilitated, enervated, enfeebled, weakened crippled, incapacitated, paralyzeddamaged, harmed, hurt, impaired, injuredbroke down, wore outsapped, undercut, undermined to make markedly greater in measure or degreewill beef up security for the next few days while the president is in town accentuated, amped (up), amplified, boosted, consolidated, deepened, enhanced, heightened, intensified, magnified, redoubled, stepped up, strengthened broadened, enlarged, expanded, extended, lengthenedaccelerated, hastened, quickenedemphasized, pointed (up), sharpened, stressedaugmented, enforced, reinforced(also reenforced), restrengthened, supplementedmaximizedenlivened, jazzed (up)aggravated, exacerbated abated, moderated decreased, diminished, lessened, let up (on), reduced, subdued, toned (down), weakeneddwindled, receded, subsided, tapered (off), wanedalleviated, eased, lightened |