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Reenforce   Listen
noun
Reenforce  n.  Something which reenforces or strengthens. Specifically:
(a)
That part of a cannon near the breech which is thicker than the rest of the piece, so as better to resist the force of the exploding powder.
(b)
An additional thickness of canvas, cloth, or the like, around an eyelet, buttonhole, etc. (Written also reinforce)





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... built fort with its handful of defenders, enlarged it, and christened it Fort Duquesne in honor of the governor of Canada. Soon afterward a young Virginian, George Washington by name, arrived on the scene with four hundred men, too late to reenforce the English fort- builders, and he also was defeated on ...
— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes
 
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... patients about the discovery and therapeutic virtue of antiphymose, all those little bluffs involved in the house-physician's taking the temperature and the weight of the patients, were simply a mise-en-scene designed to create a sort of suggestion and to reenforce it as much as possible. And it was manifestly suggestion, and not the injections of pure water, that checked the fever, arrested the cough, diminished the expectoration, revived the ...
— Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery • Robert Means Lawrence
 
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... pleased to have executed immediately what is most expedient for the royal service in this matter. [In the margin: "Write to the viceroy of Nueva Espana, sending a copy of this clause, so that he may see how few troops are being sent to the governor; accordingly, let him be charged to reenforce him with all the soldiers that he can, since he can see how important it is that that country be fortified and have troops; and entrust it to his care and zeal that this year there shall be sent sufficient help, as has ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624 • Various
 
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Words linked to "Reenforce" :   line, reinforce, reenforcement, buttress, strengthen, beef up



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