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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of strength.

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Examples

  • I think my argument is strengthed by his use of the one piece crank, which is forged from a SINGLE PIECE OF METAL and that he doesn't require foot retention.

    The Pinch Test: Indignities of Spring BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Speaking with you has done one thing for me...it has strengthed my sense of how radically Christianity has broken from The Mosaic Law.

    What Is Good? James F. McGrath 2009

  • I suppose whether it would have weakened or strengthed the point depends on which of those points you were trying to make.

    Cartoon: How Republicans Fight The Minimum Wage 2006

  • Essentially, a bunch of white men voted to lower and strengthed the glass cieling.

    Think Progress » What Ward Connerly Doesn’t Want You To Know About Affirmative Action 2006

  • The copyright industries are currently enduring a period of turbulence but concerns about laws and technologies eg copyright directive and drm driving us towards another period of stability characterised by monopolistic control could well be strengthed by further studies of this nature.

    B2fxxx 2005

  • That immediate attraction that only strengthed as I learned more and more about him.

    Cute boy from SC: the end post-doc 2005

  • Back in 1958, the late Julie Schwartz created Adam Strange as "the thinking man's superhero" (meaning he outthought the foe, rather than super-strengthed or super-magicked them).

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • A long state of senseless inactivity, made worse by sickness both of frame and mind strengthed the desire I had for some time nourished of revisit:

    Sporting Sketches 2002

  • As the saying goes "Be strong, be strong, and we shall be strengthed!" and as G-d told Joshua "have strength and courage" so just keep on trucking. previous - next

    nisayon Diary Entry nisayon 2002

  • No wonder is there if King Arthur was upheld: such faith makes impotence giant-strengthed.

    A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

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