Synonyms:
strengthen, beef_up, fortify
Meaning: make strong or stronger; "This exercise will strengthen your upper body"; "strengthen the relations between the two countries"
Synonyms:
strengthen
Meaning: gain strength; "His body strengthened"
Usage examples
Heaven preserve and strengthen you!
This was what I hoped to strengthen her to do.
To strengthen it two things are necessary: more air or breath, and more vibration.
Above all we can strengthen the criticism against our dream interpretation still further.
Doubt not that she will discover some cunning simple, that will strengthen your body, as well as comfort your heart.
The General knew, too, that the way to strengthen Hampton was to make it a centre of unselfish power in the working out of the whole Southern problem.
Considerations to aid his judgment, exhortations to strengthen his will, may be offered to him, even obtruded on him, by others; but he himself is the final judge.
Their first step was to strengthen the naval force on the American coast and by additional vigilance to put some sort of check on the wholesale smuggling which prevailed.
Perhaps it impressed me the more then, because it was new to me, but it certainly did not tend to exalt my opinion of, or to strengthen my confidence in, Mr. Jack Maldon.
In part it depends on the physical and mental powers of men; in part on things outside of the worker that either stimulate and strengthen him, or give him more favorable conditions in which to work.