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strengthening

strengthening

14 3.4
Making something stronger, for example muscles or ties between people
  • noun
  • /ˈstrɛŋkθənɪŋ/
translation icon : fortalecimiento
  • The imperatives of global environmental cooperation will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations.
  • strengthening process
  • muscle strengthening
  • further strengthening

We started then a process of strengthening our military.

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Examples

  • Second, Israel aims to prevent the formation or strengthening of forces hostile to the state.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Applied to education, these standards require strengthening of some policies and practices and complete reformulation of others.

    Academic text (1991)
  • We started then a process of strengthening our military.

  • Communication to me is a tool for strengthening democracy.

  • Already, many English bridges need structural strengthening to take the increased weight.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Renewing, strengthening our partnership is the only way we can do this.

  • There is strengthening of the mind and refining of techniques.

  • Next item would be strengthening your respiratory muscles or breathing muscles.

  • Subsequently, the military uses scenario-based training for numerous purposes, including the strengthening of cross-cultural skills.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The coach emphasized the importance of strengthening the team's defense before the big match.

Synonyms

reinforcement
vsstrengthening
108 3.9

Extra material added to make something stronger or support it

is the process of increasing strength rather than the added support
intensification
vsstrengthening
5 5.5

Making something stronger or more intense

is a general process of increasing strength rather than raising intensity
upbuilding
vsstrengthening
  • Literature
6.3

A process of helping people become morally or spiritually stronger

is the general act of making things stronger rather than only moral ones

Antonyms

3.2

A process that makes a person or thing less strong

How Strong

fortification
  • Specialized
2 8.1
strengthening
14 3.4
reinforcement
108 3.9
support
141 1.4

Surface Forms

strengthening singular

Morphology

strengthening = strengthen (transparent) = strength + en + ing

Formed regularly from 'strength' -> 'strengthen' -> 'strengthening'; meaning is directly the process of making stronger.

Etymology

The word strengthening comes from the old English word strength ('power' or 'being strong') and the ending -en ('to make'). So, strengthening literally means 'to make strong', which is why it refers to the act or process of making something stronger.