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reinforce

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reenforce \Re`["e]n*force"\, n. [See Re["e]nforce , v., and cf. Ranforce , Reinforce .] Something which re["e]nforces or strengthens. Specifically: That part of a cannon near the breech which is thicker than the rest of the piece, so as better to resist ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES reinforce a notion (= make an idea stronger or easier to believe ) ▪ The research reinforces the notion that fathers have an important role in their children’s lives. reinforce a stereotype (= make a stereotype stronger ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, originally in military sense, from re- "again" + enforce (compare re-enforce ). Related: Reinforced ; reinforcing .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (senseid en to strengthen by addition)(context transitive English) To strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation. 2 (context transitive English) To emphasize or review. 3 (context transitive English) To encourage a behavior or idea through ...

Usage examples of reinforce.

Venerable Bede was new-old: reinforced concrete buildings with precast columns, architraves, plinths, caryatids, and whatnot glued on the outside to simulate age.

The second of the one-ninety-eighth was ambushed during movement to reinforce you.

He was not trying to reinforce his beliefs but to reconstruct a cultural heritage, to remake a basis even of antinomic ideas.

The surface color and reflectivity can also be varied by arranging the bacteria into different configurations, so that light waves of one wavelength cancel each other, while the waves of another length reinforce each other, giving the object a certain color, making it light or dark.

He reinforced the garrisons at Carlisle and Berwick and appointed Henry Percy as commander in the west with Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, in the east.

Narni, Spoleto, and Perusia, were reinforced, and the seven camps of the besiegers were gradually encompassed with the calamities of a siege.

The latter, enormous work was still a drawing, but the austerity of the bistre monochrome seemed fitting for the devotional austerity of the mood and somehow reinforced the enormous compositional pull of the work towards its patriotic center, where light played on the head of Sylvain Bailly commanding the oath.

Big Screen was like an electroshock cattle prod hammered down the earthquake faults of human identity which ripple and shudder at magnitude ten and slip and slide and pulverize and resettle into new and rarely improved and NEVER stable identities and wait for the next inevitable twitch and shudder that will send reality sprawling once again like pieces of ice flying around a high-speed blender and create a new and even more unstable formation and reinforce the creeping paranoia that has flooded the dazed soul that WAS you but has become something else, something different THAT was what FILM could do.

David the injection Bowser had promised, but a whiff of gas instead, which had reinforced the overall dental impression.

The controversy over gene-modified food reached its peak in the year 2010, when a breakthrough in the analysis of the functional capabilities of the ribosome made it possible for genetic engineers to construct an artificial gene to allow cows to grow bones reinforced with buckytube fibers.

The walls are covered with excreta chemically similar to the pile excretions, which forms a mastic to reinforce the tunnel against .

The usual linear formulae had been laid out in a mantric frame, presumably to reinforce the self-perpetuating bond, and it took her a moment to pick out the normal shape of the equation.

When they avoid mentioning politics or religion, because those topics may be too controversial, they reinforce the marginalization of important American institutions by the institution of the mall.

He bad also wanted, very much, to see Karen Sloan, a desire now reinforced by her charm and re134 markable beauty.

Notwithstanding these precautions, his Prussian majesty, to guard as much as could be against every possible event, sent a great number of gunners and matrasses from Pomerania to Memel, with three regiments of his troops, to reinforce the garrison of that place.