STRENGTHENER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strengthener mean? 

• STRENGTHENER (noun)
  The noun STRENGTHENER has 1 sense:

1. a device designed to provide additional strength

  Familiarity information: STRENGTHENER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRENGTHENER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A device designed to provide additional strength

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

reinforcement; strengthener

Context example:

he used gummed reinforcements to hold the page in his notebook

Hypernyms ("strengthener" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strengthener"):

backing; mount (something forming a back that is added for strengthening)

brace; bracing (a structural member used to stiffen a framework)

brace (a support that steadies or strengthens something else)

safety arch (an undecorated arch that is included in order to strengthen or support a construction)

Derivation:

strengthen (make strong or stronger)

 Context examples 

An advantage this, a strengthener of love, in which even the conjugal tie is beneath the fraternal.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)