- strengthen, beef up, fortify - make strong or stronger; "This exercise will strengthen your upper body"; "strenghten the relations between the two countries"
--1 is one way to change, alter, modify
Antonyms: weaken
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun strengthener1, noun strengthening2
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- strengthen - gain strength; "His body strengthened"
--2 is one way to change
Antonyms: weaken
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun strengthening1
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- tone, tone up, strengthen - give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles"
--3 is one way to exercise, work out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something