strengthened
IPA: strˈɛŋθʌnd
adjective
- given added strength or support
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Examples of "strengthened" in Sentences
- It strengthened the powers of the king.
- The Acropolis of the town was strengthened by defence bulwarks.
- He strengthened the power and prestige of the Bohemian Kingdom.
- Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Mexico's links to France were once again strengthened after Porfirio Díaz consolidated his power.
- Everything, in short, strengthened my suspicions with regard to the nature of the festival they were now celebrating; and which amounted almost to a certainty.
- AT&T's perhaps most persuasive point is what it terms a strengthened ability to bring 4G service to a greater percentage 97% of the U.S. than it could on its own.
- To be strengthened is to be furnished by the grace of God for every good work, and fortified by that grace against every evil one: it is to be enabled to do our duty, and still to hold fast our integrity.
- He saw it first -- he was on the ground, and the place was his by right of discovery, the title strengthened by the fact that four of his ancestors had been Concord clergymen, and the most excellent and venerable Doctor
- The wall of the turret is a series of cellular spaces, like the chine of a shell-fish; and all these iron cells are to be filled up with teak, making one solid and uniform mass, which is to be again strengthened and rendered well-nigh impregnable by armour-plates.
- The power to regulate commerce among the several States can not include a power to construct roads and canals, and to improve the navigation of water courses in order to facilitate, promote, and secure such commerce with a latitude of construction departing from the ordinary import of the terms strengthened by the known inconveniences which doubtless led to the grant of this remedial power to Congress.