| 单词 | strengthen |
| 释义 | strength·en transitive verb 1. a. < means of strengthening the brethren and converting the pagans — Episcopal Churchnews > b. < the probability of the ascription of this passage to Democritus is strengthened by the latest research — Benjamin Farrington > 2. a. < strengthen a defensive position > < coarse foods strengthen the jaws — Morris Fishbein > < although union membership has dropped off in some places, union organization has been … strengthened in other places — American Guide Series: North Carolina > b. < its offices were regularly employed to strengthen the personal machine of the governor — D.W.McConnell > < nothing … would so strengthen the hand of democracy as the gift of literacy — Jerome Ellison > < our program of aid to scientific education … was enlarged and strengthened — Report: Monsanto Chem. Co. > < working together helps to strengthen family life — Mary S. Switzer > < the course might be strengthened, further, by … more effective integration of movies, visual aids, and other motivational devices — S.B.Zuckerman > c. < the design is strengthened by two slightly projecting corner piers — American Guide Series: Minnesota > intransitive verb 1. < the light strengthened minute by minute, and then the day came — John Connell > < intellectual faculties strengthened, and men … gained facility in moulding their Latin — H.O.Taylor > 2. < the carrier's shares strengthened on the declaration of a 75-cent dividend and the announcement that the stock would go on a … quarterly basis — J.G.Forrest > Synonyms: < strengthening the shelf with an additional brace > < be silent if you can say nothing to strengthen me in my resolution — Israel Zangwill > < strengthened his entire staff with specialists wherever they were needed — Buick Magazine > < a new science strengthened by proof and generalization — H.J.J.Winter > invigorate applies to whatever endows with vigor, vitality, animation, or energy < fresh air and sunshine will help to invigorate the body and improve nutrition — Morris Fishbein > < gave their support to invigorated nationalist movements — Oscar Handlin > fortify suggests strengthening often against attack of any sort, use calculated to damage, or condition conducive to impairment or enervation < fortified by many recruits from the demobilized armies of Europe — C.E.Black & E.C.Helmreich > < fortified her argument with quotations — H.O.Taylor > < fortified by 68 tables and 75 figures, as well as by the testimony of witnesses — D.D.McKean > energize may suggest a rousing into activity along with a strengthening and heartening to sustain that activity < the imagining of beautiful settings can be more sensitizing, energizing, and exhilarating than the imagining or reporting of ugly settings — C.A.Smart > < when a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious — Walter Lippmann > reinforce applies to strengthening by augmenting with new forces or force, power, or effectiveness < fresh troops reinforcing the defenders > < concrete reinforced with steel > < the simple country fare provided by the home farm was reinforced by a regular supply of more exotic dainties — Osbert Lancaster > < when we consider the codes of responsibility that exist in the various professions, we find generally that they do not usually come into being by means of legislation, although they may frequently be confirmed or reinforced by statutes — Lister Hill > |
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