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strengthen English

Meaning strengthen meaning

What does strengthen mean?
Definitions in simple English

strengthen Verb

— If something is strengthened, then it is made stronger; strength is added to it. — If someone strengthens a person, he or she animates or gives moral strength to encourage the person. — If something strengthens, it grows strong or stronger.

strengthen

— verb make strong or stronger This exercise will strengthen your upper body strengthen the relations between the two countries — verb gain strength His body strengthened — verb (= tone) give a healthy elasticity to Let's tone our muscles

Synonyms strengthen synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as strengthen?

strengthen English » English

reinforce fortify intensify consolidate support encourage harden invigorate confirm tighten increase toughen make strong heighten refresh develop become strong tone up tone stimulate make firm improve fasten expand beef up amplify temper solidify protect help establish enhance corroborate cement boost bolster toughen up tense substantiate strain stiffen shore up secure revive reactivate ratify inspire give encouragement fix firm

Topics strengthen topics

What do people use strengthen to talk about?
Person Body condition

Strong
Social behavior Conflict War Military organization

Fort
States Quantity More

Increase

Conjugation strengthen conjugation

How do you conjugate strengthen?

strengthen · verb

Examples strengthen examples

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Simple sentences

It is important to strengthen the basis.
Loudspeakers strengthen the voice, but not the argument.
The government should strengthen their army once and for all!
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age.
Algeria continues to strengthen ties with China and Russia.
Algeria needs to strengthen its ties with Russia and China.

Movie subtitles

So our hero picked on poor Mimi here to strengthen his case.
And then these two institutions will equally educate the German man. and, therefore, strengthen and carry on their shoulders. the German State, the German Reich.!
Spain wants a breathing spell from our attacks. so she can strengthen her forces here.
You're too intelligent to make up something I could check so easily. but you're intelligent enough to have broken it yourself to strengthen your story.
Yes, she did it to strengthen the alliance between Spain and his country.
Strengthen his lungs.
The repair room. where we strengthen and sew bindings.
To strengthen the alliance between Russia and Sweden.
I shall have to strengthen the casing.
I shan't change the design, I must just strengthen the casing and try a new method of release.
They dirty good name of our kingdom like mud. In Prague we'll strengthen the garrisons, above all at Vysehrad, for who is lord of Vysehrad, is lord of Prague.
Joshua, I charge you and strengthen you, for you shall go over Jordan to lead the people.
Strengthen me, God!
Then it'll be necessary to strengthen the barbed wire.
To strengthen ties with the population the chief of occupation and his wife with the staff are going to visit a big monastery.
Through him we'll strengthen our power.
Gracious God, may the food that we are about to receive strengthen our bodies.
However, her majesty's government is determined to obey her traditional politics' rules to serve the European moral and to strengthen the kingdom's power.
Anything would strengthen my decision, that would.
Accept this body of Jesus who gave you life for you and your sins, to strengthen you in faith for all eternity.
Accept this cup poured for you as the covenant in his blood, to strengthen you in faith for all eternity.
You're too intelligent to make up something I could check so easily but you're intelligent enough to have broken it yourself to strengthen your story.
I strengthen my position.
You should exercise every morning and strengthen these muscles and develop your ribcage. Yes, Maestro.
Strengthen me, God.
Please strengthen me.
Strengthen body weakness in prayer.
Oh, God, Almighty God. - Oh, Christ. Strengthen me, God!
And bless this food unto our nourishment that it may strengthen us. to do thy will in all things.
And may the devotion of you and your followers strengthen the whole church.
It strengthen friendship.
I decided to strengthen the bonds to see them all the time, make myself irreplacable.
Take one a day to strengthen your nervous system.
He's calling you, because he wants to strengthen and glorify his power with your talent.
Strengthen the dwelling of the Lord?
So we must strengthen the dwelling of the Lord?
Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.

News and current affairs

It is heartening that several Nigerian senators have recently been in the forefront of efforts to strengthen the rule of law in the oil sector.
There should be no doubt about the answer: it is clearly in the EU's interest to see Turkey's democracy and economy continue to strengthen.
We need to enable countries like Egypt and Tunisia - and possibly a peaceful Libya - to strengthen their political stability through democratization.
This would increase economic growth as well as strengthen national security.
Using local systems and capacities, it turns out, can strengthen them.
These investments, in turn, would strengthen the private sector and economic growth.
What is more likely to strengthen the West's security, and what runs the risk of weakening it?
Over the long run, globalization and economic convergence will resume, and emerging market and commodity currencies will have to strengthen.
Our longer-term goal is to strengthen these systems enough to reach all children in Mozambique with basic vaccines and other forms of health care.
Of course, there are also magnificent examples of elections that strengthen both the stability and the institutions of a community.
In Britain, in particular, the spectacular surge of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) can only strengthen the government's long-standing latent Euroskepticism.
Ibrahim wants to stamp out corruption, to see the rule of law applied everywhere, to foster policy environments that encourage businesses to start up and thrive, and to strengthen the role of women.
Japan plans to accelerate labor market reforms, strengthen competition, and advance fiscal consolidation to sustain domestic confidence.
The US also intends to strengthen capital market competitiveness and ensure that it remains an attractive environment for foreign investment.
It can strengthen the EU's legitimacy, though, only if policy recommendations such as these, and the successes that result from implementing them, are communicated clearly and effectively to the general public.
These clauses have yet to be invoked, but for the sake of unity and to strengthen the solidarity of African countries, it would be advisable for the nascent African Union take the lead.
While this fact alone will not quiet opponents of immigration, it does give countries more breathing room to repair and strengthen badly broken systems for receiving and integrating newcomers.
Enlargement of the EU with a number of Central and Eastern European countries will strengthen resistance to Franco-German initiatives in this direction.
The aim was to strengthen cooperation as a means of creating a lasting peace.
Both sources of demand are likely to strengthen in 2013.
Thus, it emphasizes the need to strengthen the domestic defense industry.
With our neighbors on both shores of the South Atlantic, Brazil is working closely to strengthen the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic (ZPCSA), which aims to keep the ocean free from rivalries foreign to it and from nuclear weapons.
A well-designed combination of caps to limit tax expenditures and a gradual slowing of growth in outlays for entitlement programs could reverse the rise in the debt and strengthen the US economy.
The price of the talks has already been high, with all sides having ramped up violence to strengthen their respective positions ahead of the negotiations.
The World Bank and the multilateral development banks are also developing innovative ways to strengthen country financial sectors and address potential shortfalls in trade finance.
What the Kirchners have done well is to use the wealth gained from exports to strengthen the economy and improve conditions for the middle and lower classes.

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