Word Meanings - AFFORCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To reënforce; to strengthen. Hallam.

Related words: (words related to AFFORCE)

• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• STRENGTHENER
  One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.
• STRENGTHEN
  1. To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority. Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves. Shak.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• REENFORCE
  To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
• REENFORCEMENT
  1. The act of reënforcing, or the state of being reënforced. 2. That which reënforces; additional force; especially, additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet.
• ENFORCED
  Compelled; forced; not voluntary. "Enforced wrong." "Enforced smiles." Shak. -- En*for"ced*ly, adv. Shak.
• REENFORCED CONCRETE
  Concrete having within its mass a system of strengthening iron or steel supports. = Ferro-concrete.
• REINFORCE
  See T
• ENFORCEMENT
  1. The act of enforcing; compulsion. He that contendeth against these enforcements may easily master or resist them. Sir W. Raleigh. Confess 't was hers, and by what rough enforcement You got it from her. Shak. 2. A giving force to; a putting in
• ENFORCEABLE
  Capable of being enforced.
• RESTRENGTHEN
  To strengthen again; to fortify anew.
• RANFORCE
  See BAILEY
• ENFORCE
  1. To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands. Inward joy enforced my heart to smile. Shak. 2. To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage. "Enforcing furious way." Spenser.
• ENFORCER
  One who enforces.