strengthener
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For one thing, “very” is a fraud, masquerading as a strengthener when it merely wheedles and pleads.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2022
A doctor suggested ballet as a strengthener when she complained of pain in the arches of her feet, and the household mobilized to make sure she got to lessons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
That acted as a strengthener, while continuing to draw chlorides out of the material.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 7, 2015
Roy, my boy, I hope I shall not be such a weak woman now, but your help and strengthener, as you will be mine.
From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn
A thin plank fayed at the head-rails as a strengthener.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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