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Strengthen
v. t.
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To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.
Strengthen
v. t.
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To animate; to encourage; to fix in resolution.
Strengthen
v. i.
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To grow strong or stronger.
Strengthener
n.
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One who, or that which, gives or adds strength.
Strengthening
a.
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That strengthens; giving or increasing strength.
Strengthful
a.
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Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong.
Strengthing
n.
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A stronghold.
Strengthless
a.
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Destitute of strength.
Strengthner
n.
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See Strengthener.
Strengthy
a.
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Having strength; strong.
Strenuity
n.
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Strenuousness; activity.
Strenuous
a.
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Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country.
Strepent
a.
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Noisy; loud.
Streperous
a.
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Loud; boisterous.
Strepitores
n. pl.
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A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
Strepsipter
n.
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Alt. of Strepsipteran
Strepsipteran
n.
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One of the Strepsiptera.
Strepsiptera
n. pl.
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A group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter.
Strepsipterous
a.
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Of or pertaining to Strepsiptera.
Strepsorhina
n. pl.
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Same as Lemuroidea.
Strepsorhine
a.
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Having twisted nostrils; -- said of the lemurs.
Strepsorhine
n.
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One of the Strepsorhina; a lemur. See Illust. under Monkey.
Streptobacteria
n. pl.
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A so-called variety of bacterium, consisting in reality of several bacteria linked together in the form of a chain.
Streptococci
pl.
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of Streptococcus
Streptococcus
n.
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A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved.
Streptoneura
n. pl.
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An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearly to equivalent to Prosobranchiata.
Streptothrix
n.
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A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.
Stress
n.
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Distress.
Stress
n.
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Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.
Stress
n.
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The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress.