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Synonyms of strengthen in English:

strengthen


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verb

1‘calcium helps strengthen growing bones’

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make strong, make stronger, build up, give strength to, make healthy, nourish
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weaken

2‘engineers strengthened the walls’

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reinforce, make stronger, buttress, brace, shore up, underpin
rare underprop

3‘strengthened glass’

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toughen, temper, anneal

4‘the wind had strengthened’

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become strong, become stronger, gain strength, intensify, pick up, heighten
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die down, ease off

5‘his insistence strengthened her determination’

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fortify, bolster, make stronger, give strength to, give a boost to, boost, reinforce, harden, stiffen, toughen, steel, cement
increase, add to, fuel, add fuel to
renew, vitalize, give new energy to, buoy up, hearten
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sap, weaken

6‘the organization strengthened its efforts to expand such programmes’

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step up, increase, heighten, escalate, scale up
informal up, crank up, beef up
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relax, decrease

7‘the argument is strengthened by evidence from clinical data’

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reinforce, make more forceful, lend more weight to
support, back up, bolster, confirm, bear out, substantiate, corroborate, authenticate
consolidate
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undermine