beef up
v : make strong or stronger; "This exercise will strengthen your
upper body"; "strenghten the relations between the two
countries" [syn: strengthen, fortify] [ant: weaken]
WordNet (r) 2.0
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "beef up":
accelerate, aggrandize, aggravate, augment, blow up, boost, brace,
brace up, buttress, case harden, complicate, concentrate, condense,
confirm, consolidate, deepen, double, enhance, enlarge, exacerbate,
exaggerate, expand, extend, fortify, gird, harden, heat up,
heighten, hop up, hot up, intensify, invigorate, jazz up, key up,
magnify, make complex, multiply, nerve, prop, ramify, redouble,
refresh, reinforce, reinvigorate, restrengthen, sharpen, shore up,
soup up, steel, step up, stiffen, strengthen, support, sustain,
temper, toughen, triple, undergird, whet
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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