Usually means: Increases capacity, resilience, or effectiveness.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. strengthens: Merriam-Webster
  2. strengthens: Collins English Dictionary
  3. strengthens: Vocabulary.com
  4. Strengthens, strengthens: Wordnik
  5. strengthens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. strengthens: Wiktionary
  7. strengthens: Dictionary.com
  8. strengthens: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. strengthens: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strengthens: Legal dictionary

(Note: See strengthen as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (strengthen)

verb:  (transitive) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
verb:  (transitive) To empower; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to enhearten.
verb:  (transitive) To augment; to improve; to intensify.
verb:  (transitive) To reinforce, to add to, to support (someone or something)
verb:  (transitive) To substantiate; to corroborate (a belief, argument, etc.)
verb:  (intransitive) To grow strong or stronger.
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