Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which makes strong or stronger; one who or that which increases strength, physical or moral.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, gives or adds strength.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who, or that which, gives or adds strength.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a device designed to provide additional strength

Etymologies

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strengthen +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Jason Hager shows that paying a little extra for tortoise wax hyperspace pod strengthener is well worth it.

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  • Adding a further level of complexity, the companies could use the fictions crafted around them to either attack each other or to merge, making their existence a strengthener for the fiction.

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  • Adding a further level of complexity, the companies could use the fictions crafted around them to either attack each other or to merge, making their existence a strengthener for the fiction.

    Some Thoughts, Part Seven – Games « The Graveyard 2010

  • Caring about others is a connection strengthener, and is therefore good for business.

    Birute Regine: The Importance of Care in Business Birute Regine 2010

  • I experienced it as a strengthener of spirit, a movement forward in my growing ability to connect with animals other than human.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2008

  • I experienced it as a strengthener of spirit, a movement forward in my growing ability to connect with animals other than human.

    The Victory Belongs To Love Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2008

  • Whatever he was like normally with his wife, he had drunk deeply of the spine-strengthener supplied by Lycaelon, and was acting accordingly.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Sit on an exercise ball for the first hour you work on your computer a great core strengthener.

    You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

  • Sit on an exercise ball for the first hour you work on your computer a great core strengthener.

    You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

  • Sit on an exercise ball for the first hour you work on your computer a great core strengthener.

    You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

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