Usually means: Make stronger or more robust.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word strengthen:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. strengthen: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. strengthen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. strengthen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. strengthen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. strengthen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Strengthen, strengthen: Wordnik
  7. strengthen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. strengthen: Wiktionary
  9. strengthen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. strengthen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. strengthen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. strengthen: Dictionary.com
  13. strengthen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Strengthen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. strengthen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. strengthen: Rhymezone
  17. strengthen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. strengthen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. strengthen: Free Dictionary
  20. strengthen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. strengthen: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strengthen: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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