strengthenedadj.
/ˈstrɛŋ(k)θnd/, U.S. /ˈstrɛŋ(k)θ(ə)nd/ 1. Made or become strong or stronger (in various senses).
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > strengthening or confirmation of immaterial things > [adjective] > strengthened
corroborate1532
strengthened1578
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increasing in intensity or degree > increased in intensity or degree
strengthened1578
intended1590
exasperate1601
intenseda1658
aggrandized1689
heightened1701
intensated1831
intensified1862
stepped1933
the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > strengthening > [adjective] > strengthened
saddedc1520
strengthened1578
sinewed1604
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 8v This bone in the hinder part of the head, in persons of strengthned yeares, is all one.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xviii. x Unto my strengthned stepps, thou didst enlardge the way.
1604 J. Marston Malcontent ii. v. sig. D4 Lets be once drunke together, and so vnite a most vertuously strengthened friendship.
a1676 J. Dunton Heavenly Pastime (1685) xviii. 83 Before the strengthened stroke had time to fall, A sudden voice from Heaven cryes hold.
1763 C. Churchill Conference 5 Hence to Yon Mountain which outbraves the sky, And dart from pole to pole thy strengthen'd eye.
a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. ix. 137 Catherine was left..with rather a strengthened belief of there being a great deal of wine drank in Oxford. View more context for this quotation
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. iv. xxx. 284 Adam's words..also carried a meaning which sickened her with a strengthened foreboding.
1910 Econ. Jrnl. 20 228 The Count attributed the friendliness and moderateness of the money market to the strengthened state of the Japanese credit.
1971 S. Wasserman Table Tennis (new ed.) 7 The increased attention being given to table tennis in Western countries is resulting in strengthened table tennis skills.
2002 Chicago Tribune 28 Oct. i. 7/6 Both candidates call for a strengthened State Board of Ethics.
2. As the second element in compounds, as heavily-, steel-, straw-, well-strengthened, etc.ice-strengthened: see ice n. Compounds 8.
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1825 ‘Shakespeare II’ Shakespeare's Romances I. xii. 149 A formidable tower-strengthened fortification.
1858 C. H. Hartshorne Mem. Hist. & Antiq. Northumberland II. ii. 26 Its great feudatories possessed their well-strengthened castles in their own baronies.
1875 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea V. vi. 187 The increasing roar of a heavily strengthened artillery.
1880 Lett. Registration New South Wales 56 in Jrnl. Legislative Council New South Wales (1885) 39 To hang the doors to the side framing of the vehicle, now varied by..hanging them to the front steel strengthened pillar.
1911 J. W. Fewkes Prelim. Rep. Visit Navaho Nat. Monument 5 The use of straw-strengthened adobe blocks is unknown in the construction of other cliff-houses.
1956 Billboard 19 May 2/1 The heavily strengthened ABC-TV programming shaping up for next season.
1964 L. H. Van Vlack Elements Materials Sci. (ed. 2) xiii. 391 Reinforced materials... Dispersion-strengthened materials.
2000 Removals & Storage Feb. 54/2 (advt.) 250 cu ft containers with timber strengthened base.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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