beef up
Verb
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Make strong or stronger (synset 200221295)
"This exercise will strengthen your upper body"; "strengthen the relations between the two countries"causes: strengthen - gain strengthsubtypes:
- vitalise, vitalize - make more lively or vigorous
- ruggedise, ruggedize - produce in a version designed to withstand rough usage
- substantiate - solidify, firm, or strengthen
- restrengthen - make strong again
- brace up, undergird - make secure underneath
- confirm - make more firm
- reenforce, reinforce - make stronger
- buttress - make stronger or defensible
- brace, stabilise, stabilize, steady - support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- batten - secure with battens
- batten, batten down, secure - furnish with battens
same as: fortify, strengthen
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