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Strengthening   /strˈɛŋθənɪŋ/   Listen
Strengthening

noun
1.
Becoming stronger.
2.
The act of increasing the strength of something.


Strengthen

verb
(past & past part. strengthened; pres. part. strengthening)
1.
Make strong or stronger.  Synonyms: beef up, fortify.  "Strengthen the relations between the two countries"
2.
Gain strength.
3.
Give a healthy elasticity to.  Synonyms: tone, tone up.



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"Strengthening" Quotes from Famous Books



... be spared by either husband or wife to contribute to the other's happiness and comfort. It does not require a long time, especially when living together, for one to see what will please another. This desire to please, strengthening with the days and years, revealing itself in a thousand kindly ways, will do more than any thing else to make the home ...
— The Wedding Day - The Service--The Marriage Certificate--Words of Counsel • John Fletcher Hurst
... under the care of Mr. Parish, and entertain very little apprehension about the cough; but my over-exertions in town have reduced me to a state of much debility; and, until the cough be gone, I cannot be permitted to take any strengthening medicines. This places me in an awkward predicament; but I think I perceive a degree of expectoration this morning, which will soon relieve me, and then I shall mend apace. Under these circumstances I must not expect ...
— The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White - With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas • Henry Kirke White
... regeneration of our fleet begins. From today Ottoman hearts must again rejoice. We must work hard now for the strengthening of our navy. We must know that our fleet, which till yesterday was lifeless, is no longer in incompetent hands and under the leadership of lazy minds. New Turkey has intrusted her navy to iron hands. At the head of our fleet ...
— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times
... again. Dawn was very near now. The east, behind him, was already lighted up with streaks of glowing crimson. Dark clouds were massed there, and there was a feeling in the air that carried a foreboding of rain, strengthening the threat of the red sky. Harry was not sorry for that. There would be work at Bray Park that might well fare better were it ...
— The Boy Scout Aviators • George Durston
... planter and ship-owner now needed thorough, rather than hurried, preparation. He sent his overseer on horseback to Philadelphia to arrange for the purchase of guns, and put all the available carpenters and shipwrights to work on the Queen, strengthening the improvised gun decks and cutting the ...
— The Black Buccaneer • Stephen W. Meader


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