strengthening

• COUNT in NET: 5 in 5 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses) (in NT : 4 in 4 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

strengthening, a. 

 That strengthens; giving or increasing strength.  [1913 Webster]

Strengthening plaster (Med.), a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.

THESAURUS

strengthening

accelerando, acceleration, affirmation, aggravation, analeptic, attestation, authentication, backing, backing up, bearing out, beefing-up, blowing up, blowup, bolstering, bracing, buttressing, case hardening, certification, circumstantiation, concentration, condensation, confirmation, consolidation, corroborant, corroboration, corroboratory evidence, deepening, documentation, enhancement, exacerbation, exaggeration, explosion, fortification, hardening, heating-up, heightening, information explosion, intensification, invigorating, invigoration, magnification, pickup, population explosion, proof, proving, proving out, ratification, redoubling, refreshing, refreshment, reinforcement, reinvigoration, restorative, restrengthening, revivification, reviving, roborant, speedup, step-up, stimulating, substantiation, support, supporting evidence, tempering, tightening, tonic, undergirding, validation, verification

ROGET THESAURUS

strengthening

Strength

N strength, power, energy, vigor, force, main force, physical force, brute force, spring, elasticity, tone, tension, tonicity, stoutness, lustihood, stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew, thews and sinews, physique, pith, pithiness, virtility, vitality, athletics, athleticism, gymnastics, feats of strength, adamant, steel, iron, oak, heart of oak, iron grip, grit, bone, athlete, gymnast, acrobat, superman, Atlas, Hercules, Antaeus, Samson, Cyclops, Goliath, tower of strength, giant refreshed, strengthening, invigoration, refreshment, refocillation, dynamics, statics, strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid, resistless, irresistible, invincible, proof against, impregnable, unconquerable, indomitable, dominating, inextinguishable, unquenchable, incontestable, more than a match for, overpowering, overwhelming, all powerful, all sufficient, sovereign, able-bodied, athletic, Herculean, Cyclopean, Atlantean, muscular, brawny, wiry, well-knit, broad-shouldered, sinewy, strapping, stalwart, gigantic, manly, man-like, manful, masculine, male, virile, unweakened, unallayed, unwithered, unshaken, unworn, unexhausted, in full force, in full swing, in the plenitude of power, stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted, strong as a lion, strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy, sound as a roach, in fine feather, in high feather, built like a brick shithouse, like a giant refreshed, strongly, by force, by main force, our withers are unwrung, Blut und Eisen, coelitus mihi vires, du fort au diable, en habiles gens, ex vi termini, flecti non frangi, he that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves an, inflexible in faith invincible in arms.