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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



... more and more inconsistent with the ethical spirit of the times. Men may talk of the expenses, horrors, and devastations of war as paramount causes for the tendency to substitute arbitration; but antedating all other causes, underlying and strengthening all others, is the slowly changing social conscience which, as each generation passes, appreciates more fully warfare's inconsistency with justice and antagonism to right. This same cause found civilized society ...
— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association
... an answer to this. They will argue it is well that life should be Spartan and hard, because of the discipline and its strengthening effects on the character. But the good effects of this sort of discipline will be mixed with sad wreckage. And only creatures incapable of disciplining themselves could thus argue. It is an odd expedient to get yourself into trouble just ...
— This Simian World • Clarence Day Jr.
... not be the first prince, still he and his seed are to find a kingdom in that place. Russia will be willing for England to have Constantinople, and exercise a provisional protectorate over Turkey, with a view of strengthening his daughter's chances. England will thus come peaceably ...
— The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 • Joseph Wild
... hurdles for the strengthening of the spirit are all very well, but occasionally there is a spirit ruined ...
— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... character were the Servian walls. They consisted partly of a strengthening of the hill-slopes by facing them with lining-walls as much as 4 metres thick, partly—in the intervals, above all on the Viminal and Quirinal, where from the Esquiline to the Colline gate there was an absence of natural defence—of ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen


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