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beef (up)verb to increase the ability of (as a muscle) to exert physical forcebeefed up the walls with iron bars fortify, harden, strengthen, toughen anneal, temperfirm (up), tone (up)energize, invigorate, vitalizerestrengthen debilitate, enervate, enfeeble, weaken cripple, incapacitate, paralyzedamage, harm, hurt, impair, injurebreak down, wear outsap, undercut, undermine to make markedly greater in measure or degreewill beef up security for the next few days while the president is in town accentuate, amp (up), amplify, boost, consolidate, deepen, enhance, heighten, intensify, magnify, redouble, step up, strengthen broaden, enlarge, expand, extend, lengthenaccelerate, hasten, quickenemphasize, point (up), sharpen, stressaugment, enforce, reinforce(also reenforce), restrengthen, supplementmaximizeenliven, jazz (up)aggravate, exacerbate abate, moderate decrease, diminish, lessen, let up (on), reduce, subdue, tone (down), weakendwindle, recede, subside, taper (off), wanealleviate, ease, lighten |