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beefing (up)verbpresent participle of beef (up) to increase the ability of (as a muscle) to exert physical forcebeefed up the walls with iron bars fortifying, 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 markedly greater in measure or degreewill beef up security for the next few days while the president is in town accentuating, amping (up), amplifying, boosting, consolidating, deepening, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifying, redoubling, stepping up, strengthening 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 |