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Prove
To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
Ossified
Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.
Spread
An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
Multiplied
of Multiply
Analeptic
Restorative; giving strength after disease.
Embolden
To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.
Disable
Lacking ability; unable.
Expanded
of Expand
Verify
To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenciate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like.
Spine
One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.
Whet
The act of whetting.
Stay
Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.
Hardening
That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.
Bloat
To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.
Accrue
To increase; to augment.
Broaden
To grow broad; to become broader or wider.
Rise
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
Confirmation
The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.
Contribute
To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute f..
Deaden
To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
Petrified
of Petrify
Bracing
of Brace
Magnification
The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
Deepening
of Deepen
Tightening
of Tighten
Debilitate
To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.
Accelerate
To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
Crystallized
of Crystallize
Solidified
of Solidify
Triple
Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.
Extenuate
To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
Undermine
To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall.
Sharpen
To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.
Inspirit
To infuse new life or spirit into; to animate; to encourage; to invigorate.
Raised
of Raise
Increased
of Increase
Restorative
Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore.
Bloat
To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.
Ratification
The act of ratifying; the state of being ratified; confirmation; sanction; as, the ratification of a treaty.
Heightening
of Heighten
Acceleration
The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation..
Condensation
The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.
Tighten
To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
Endure
To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.
Stiffen
To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
Enervate
To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
Consolidate
Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.
Eviscerate
To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
Prove
To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.
Undergird
To blind below; to gird round the bottom.
Restore
To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.
Certification
The act of certifying.
Indurate
Hardened; not soft; indurated.
Granulated
of Granulate
Hardened
of Harden
Tonic
Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and di..
Restrengthen
To strengthen again; to fortify anew.
Bracer
That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.
Mainstay
The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.
Strengthener
One who, or that which, gives or adds strength.
Harden
To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
Unnerve
To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm.
Sharpen
To make sharp.
Affirm
to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
Boltrope
A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.
Incrusted
of Incrust
Backed
of Back
Enfeeble
To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.
Backbone
The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.
Fulcrum
A prop or support.
Prop
A shell, used as a die. See Props.
Complicate
Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
Upholder
A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman.
Fortify
To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.
Corset
In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.
Entrench
See Intrench.
Crusty
Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.
Concentration
The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.
Proliferate
To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.
Devitalize
To deprive of life or vitality.
Supplement
That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.
Steel
A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consistin..
Toughen
To grow or make tough, or tougher.
Fascine
A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and ..
Attenuate
To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.
Mount
A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper ..
Stave
One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides..
Fortification
The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.
Arm
The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.
Supporter
One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.
Wax
To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
Exhaust
To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
Roborant
Strengthening.
Invigorating
of Invigorate
Carrier
One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
Bearer
One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
Ratify
To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or ..
Stimulating
of Stimulate
Hearty
Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.
Aggrandized
of Aggrandize
Magnified
of Magnify
Swollen
of Swell
Grow
To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
Enhanced
of Enhance
Elevated
of Elevate
Cripple
One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.
Rigging
of Rig
Nourish
To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
Lace
That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment..
Vitalize
To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.
Refreshing
of Refresh
Enhancement
The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
Advance
To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
Condense
To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
Blunt
Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
Cervix
The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird.
Concentrate
To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the atten..
Freshen
To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.
Gain
A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
Inflated
of Inflate
Tempering
of Temper
Forgetful
Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.
Amplified
of Amplify
Redouble
To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.
Hearten
To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden.
Probate
Proof.
Attestation
The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the p..
Refreshment
The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression.
Bracket
An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
Verify
To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.
Sustainer
One who, or that which, sustains.
Attest
To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record.
Fossilized
of Fossilize
Heighten
To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
Aggravation
The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt..
Deepen
To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.
Substantiate
To make to exist; to make real.
Ramify
To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.
Callous
Hardened; indurated.
Validate
To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.
Advocate
One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.
Cheer
The face; the countenance or its expression.
Refresh
To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the bo..
Exacerbate
To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.
Recruit
To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.
Aggravate
To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
Augment
To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.
Whet
To rub or on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening; to sharpen by attrition; as, to whet a knife.
Double
Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.
Reduce
To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
Accumulate
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
Mitigate
To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.
Strengthening
of Strengthen
Unman
To deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like.
Breed
To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
Intensification
The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.
Reinforcement
See Reenforcement.
Abate
To beat down; to overthrow.
Educate
To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, s..
Exacerbation
The act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.
Weaken
To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the ..
Invigorate
To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.
Tense
One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indic..
Spike
A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
Extended
of Extend
Temper
To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.
Neck
The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.
Explosion
The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp,etc.
Dull
Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
Consolidation
The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.
Back
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
Uphold
To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
Stick
A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.
Inspire
To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
Bloated
of Bloat
Buttress
A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
Cane
A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
Backing
of Back
Increase
To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease.
Shroud
That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
Stay
A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft ..
Prepare
To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson.
Crutch
A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking.
Intensify
To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.
Mast
The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.
Appreciate
To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.
Reinforce
See Reenforce, v. t.
Improve
To disprove or make void; to refute.
Animate
To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
Document
That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
Enhance
To raise or lift up; to exalt.
Strengthen
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.
Certify
To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain.
Bolster
A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows.
Support
To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports ..
Develop
To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor ..
Rest
To arrest.
Nerve
One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.
Affirmation
Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.
Proof
Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
Brace
That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
Sustain
To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
Exaggerate
To heap up; to accumulate.
Confirm
To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
Warrant
That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something ..
Promote
To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to prom..
Platoon
Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.
Sap
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
Guy
A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard i..
Dampen
To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
Damp
Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
Steady
Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.
Magnify
To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters.
Spread
of Spread
Hardening
of Harden
Balloon
A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
Exaggeration
The act of heaping or piling up.
Widen
To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.
Snowball
A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.
Cimbia
A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.
Multiply
To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.
Patch
A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.
Cramp
That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
Rattle
To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
Ready
Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to marc..
Build
To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
Shake
obs. p. p. of Shake.
Gird
A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
Set
of Set
Welt
That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it
Boom
A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.
Staff
A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
Swell
To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a ..
Crescendo
With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the wo..
Girdle
A griddle.
Rise
To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a ..
Crook
A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
Shoulder
The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.
Spine
A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.
Bandeau
A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress.
