STRENGTHENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strengthened mean? 

• STRENGTHENED (adjective)
  The adjective STRENGTHENED has 1 sense:

1. given added strength or support

  Familiarity information: STRENGTHENED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRENGTHENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Given added strength or support

Synonyms:

reinforced; strengthened

Context example:

reinforced concrete contains steel bars or metal netting

Similar:

strong (having strength or power greater than average or expected)

 Context examples 

Emma was directly sure that he knew how to make himself agreeable; the conviction was strengthened by what followed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He felt strengthened by the memory of that.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Another circumstance strengthened and confirmed these feelings.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Elizabeth had turned from him, Lady Russell overlooked him; her nerves were strengthened by these circumstances; she felt that she owed him attention.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Clara is greatly strengthened and improved, but we can hardly expect so much from her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His desire to kill strengthened with the days, and he cherished hungry ambitions for the squirrel that chattered so volubly and always informed all wild creatures that the wolf-cub was approaching.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The contrast between this and her last breakfast in that room gave her fresh misery, and strengthened her distaste for everything before her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She was so good and brave that we all felt that our hearts were strengthened to work and endure for her, and we began to discuss what we were to do.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The Miss Steeles removed to Harley Street, and all that reached Elinor of their influence there, strengthened her expectation of the event.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)