strengthening
present participle ofstrengthen
| 单词 | strengthening |
| 释义 | strengthening present participle ofstrengthen strengthen verb[IorT] uk/ˈstreŋ.θən/us/ˈstreŋ.θən/B2 to make somethingstrongeror moreeffective, or tobecomestrongeror moreeffective: They have been strengtheningtheirborderdefencesinpreparationforwar. Hisbattleagainstcancerhas strengthened hisbeliefinGod. Theaccidentstrengthens thecaseforbettersafetymeasuresatfairgrounds. Thebankloanhasgreatlystrengthenedourfinancialposition. The organization'saimis to strengthen theculturaltiesbetweenBritainand Germany. Therisein USinterestratescausedthedollarto strengthen(=increaseinvalue)againstall theAsiancurrencies.
Becoming and making stronger
Idiomstrengthensomeone'shand Examplesofstrengtheningstrengthening In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Because thisstrengtheningtypically takes place through a reduction in credit creation, it can produce a credit crunch that exacerbates the recession. From theCambridge English Corpus The interplay ofstrengtheningand relaxation is an old theme in optimization that goes under the name of primal-dual methods. From theCambridge English Corpus Legislation aimed atstrengtheningoversight and transparency of private agencies took effect in 2001. From theCambridge English Corpus A pair of amendments in 1956 and 1962 authorized federal spending for social services aimed atstrengtheningfamilies and preventing long-term reliance on public aid. From theCambridge English Corpus The horizontal line was breaking up and the vertical one wasstrengtheningits position. From theCambridge English Corpus A fury for rights claiming has developed in the last twenty-years with media expansion and thestrengtheningof the individual's position in society. From theCambridge English Corpus Strengtheningthe nursing, midwifery and health visiting contribution to health and healthcare. From theCambridge English Corpus Confinement can be viewed asstrengtheningvisibility rules to ensure that instances of a package-scoped class do not escape their defining package. From theCambridge English Corpus Branching likewise creates strengthenings of the problem by adding constraints. From theCambridge English Corpus Strengtheningthis force was seen as undermining the president's grip on power and consolidating that of his deputy defence minister. From theCambridge English Corpus What we see, then, is a progressive weakening of the force of oppositional salience, with a concomitantstrengtheningof tense. From theCambridge English Corpus Thestrengtheningof the fiscal constraint (in period 45) completely modifies the inflation path dynamics. From theCambridge English Corpus However, it may be explained if thestrengtheningof clusters can be enhanced by the gestural omission of cluster-internal (alveolar) consonants during planning. From theCambridge English Corpus We also considerstrengtheningthe guarantees of the library for elementary and full validity. From theCambridge English Corpus The published evidence for quadricepsstrengtheningusing weights, for instance, is quite unequivocal. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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