Word Meanings - STRENGTHENING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STRENGTHENING)

• corporation
• Confirmation
• fortification
• strengthening

Related words: (words related to STRENGTHENING)

• CORPORATION
  A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual. Note: Corporations are aggregate or
• 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.
• CONFIRMATION
  A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc. This ordinance is called confirmation, because
• FORTIFICATION
  1. The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy. 2. That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a
• 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.
• REFORTIFICATION
  A fortifying anew, or a second time. Mitford.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• QUASI CORPORATION
  A corporation consisting of a person or body of persons invested with some of the qualities of an artificial person, though not expressly incorporated, esp. the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools districts, and the
• DISINCORPORATION
  Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. T. Warton.
• INCORPORATION
  1. The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated. 2. The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis. 3. The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation;
• RESTRENGTHEN
  To strengthen again; to fortify anew.
• CONCORPORATION
  Union of things in one mass or body. Dr. H. More.