Mots en English pour 'make more powerful'
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- make strong or stronger
- add nutrients to
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- enclose by or as if by a fortification
- prepare oneself for a military confrontation
- To impart fortitude or moral strength to (someone or their determination, or something); to encourage.
- (wine) To add spirits to (wine) to increase the alcohol content.
- To make (something) defensible against attack by hostile forces.
- To give power, strength, or vigour to (oneself or someone, or to something); to strengthen.
- To support (one's or someone's opinion, statement, etc.) by producing evidence, etc.; to confirm, to corroborate.
- To secure and strengthen (a place, its walls, etc.) by installing fortifications or other military works.
- (military) To install fortifications or other military works; also (sometimes figurative), to put up a defensive position.
- (ambitransitive, linguistics) To undergo, or cause to undergo, fortition.
- To increase the nutritional value of (food) by adding ingredients, especially minerals or vitamins.
- To increase the defences of (an army, soldiers, etc.), or put (it or them) in a defensive position.
- make strong or stronger
- give a healthy elasticity to
- gain strength
- (transitive) To empower; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to enhearten.
- (intransitive) To grow strong or stronger.
- (transitive) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
- (transitive) To substantiate; to corroborate (a belief, argument, etc.)
- (transitive) To reinforce, to add to, to support (someone or something)
- (transitive) To augment; to improve; to intensify.
- make more intense
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- twist into a strained configuration
- screw or turn higher
- (intransitive, colloquial) To blunder; to make a mistake.
- (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of; to ruin.
- (transitive) To raise by turning a rotary handle.
- (transitive) To raise or summon up.
- (transitive) To twist into a contorted state.
- (transitive) To tighten or secure with screws.
- (transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
- (transitive) To make faster or more powerful.
- (automotive) To increase the power of an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the crankshaft.
- (electronics, electrics) To recharge a battery cell/pack at an extremely rapid pace.
- increase or raise
- increase the pressure on a gas or liquid
- To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity
- become more extreme
- To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
- increase the level of
- make (one's senses) more acute
- increase the height of
- To produce something with incredible power.
- (impersonal) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
- (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.
- (ergative) To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
- (intransitive, transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
- move fast, noisily, and heavily
- utter words loudly and forcefully
- to make or produce a loud noise
- be the case that thunder is being heard
- A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
- (literature) Synonym of thunder word.
- The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
- An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
- a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning
- a deep prolonged loud noise
- street names for heroin
- a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
- (figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.
- (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
- (architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- (botany) A buttress root.
- To make stronger or more solid.
- (finance) With respect to debt, to pay off several debts with a single loan.
- (ambitransitive) To combine into a single unit; to group together or join.
- make firm or secure; strengthen
- form into a solid mass or whole
- unite into one
- make or form into a solid or hardened mass
- bring together into a single whole or system
- make denser, stronger, or purer
- cook until very little liquid is left
- make central
- compress or concentrate
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- make more concise
- direct one's attention on something
- draw together or meet in one common center
- (ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
- (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
- To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
- (nautical) The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
- An overwhelming blow.
- (soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
- An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
- (genetics) The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
- A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
- (genetics) A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
- (film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
- a blow that knocks the opponent off their feet
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- put or add together
- calculate principal and interest
- create by mixing or combining
- combine so as to form a whole; mix
- (intransitive, finance) To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.
- (intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
- (transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.
- (transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
- (horse racing, intransitive) Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.
- (transitive, see usage notes) To worsen a situation.
- (transitive, law) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
- composed of more than one part
- composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
- consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts
- (mathematics) Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
- (music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
- Composed of elements; not simple.
- an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)
- (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight
- a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.
- a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts
- (chemistry) A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.
- (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.
- Anything made by combining several things.
- An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
- (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or affix, e.g. "bookshop", "high school" or "non-standard".
- Ellipsis of compound exercise.
- (rail transport) A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
- An enclosure for secure storage.
- (law) A legal procedure whereby a criminal or delinquent avoids prosecution in a court in exchange for his payment to the authorities of a financial penalty or fine.
- (by extension, Philippines) A group of buildings where members of the same extended family live together.
- A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- become more intense
- make deeper
- become deeper in tone
- (transitive) To make more sound or heavy.
- (intransitive) To become deeper
- (transitive) To make lower in tone
- (intransitive) To become more sound or heavy.
- (intransitive) To become darker or more intense
- (transitive) To make deep or deeper
- (intransitive) To become lower in tone
- (transitive) To make more intimate.
- (intransitive) To become more intimate.
- (intransitive) To become more thorough or extensive.
- (transitive) To make more thorough or extensive.
- (transitive) To make darker or more intense; to darken
- (transitive) To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- become more intense
- increase in extent or intensity
- make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
- (intransitive) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
- (transitive) To render more intense.
- make bigger or more
- become bigger or greater in amount
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
- a change resulting in an increase
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- the act of increasing something
- a quantity that is added
- the amount by which something increases
- Offspring, progeny.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- make twice as great or intense
- double again
- double in magnitude, extent, or intensity
- (transitive) To double, especially to double again; to increase considerably; to multiply; to intensify.
- (bridge, backgammon) To double an opponent's doubling bid.
- To double again what was reduced to a single state.
- (intransitive) To become twice as big.
- make capable
- make legally capable or qualify in law
- cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg
- (transitive, zoology) To alter sperm to allow it to fertilize eggs.
- (transitive) To make capable of functioning in a given capacity.
- (transitive, mathematics) To reach maximum throughput on at least part of a constrained network.
- Greater in size or power.
- Of high standard or quality.
- Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
- (astronomy, of a planet in the Solar System) Having a wider orbit around the Sun; typically with respect to the Earth.
- (anatomy, medicine) Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.
- (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.
- (taxonomy) More comprehensive.
- (botany) (of a calyx) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part.
- (superior to) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
- Greater or better than average.
- (botany) (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.
- Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
- (botany) (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.
- (typography) Printed in superscript.
- Located above or out; higher in position.
- Higher in rank, status, or quality.
- having a higher rank
- of or characteristic of high rank or importance
- (often followed by ‘to’) above being affected or influenced by
- of high or superior quality or performance
- written or printed above and to one side of another character
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) not subject to or influenced by
- having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit
- The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
- (Scots law, historical) One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.
- The senior person in a monastic community.
- (printing) A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
- one of greater rank or station or quality
- a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character
- the head of a religious community
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- Powerful; energetic.
- Changing; active; in motion.
- (computing) Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.
- Able to change and adapt.
- (grammar) Of a verb: not stative, but fientive; indicating continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (music) Having to do with the volume of sound.
- Pertaining to dynamics, the branch of mechanics concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
- of or relating to dynamics
- characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality
- (used of verbs (e.g. ‘to run’) and participial adjectives (e.g. ‘running’ in ‘running water’)) expressing action rather than a state of being
- (physics) A moving force.
- (grammar) A verb that indicates continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (music) A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.
- (music) The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness.
- A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior.
- an efficient incentive
- To make more acute, intense, or effective.
- (UK, US, Southern US, dialect, intransitive) To grumble.
- (transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
- (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.
- (transitive) To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
- (transitive) To refine (a skill especially) by learning.
- sharpen with a hone
- make perfect or complete
- A kind of swelling in the cheek.
- A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
- A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
- a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc.
- a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
- comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
- comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
- (comparative of ‘much’ used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; above; more than
- (comparative of ‘many’ used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number
- To a greater degree or extent.
- Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
- (now dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.
- (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
- comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent
- used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs, indicates that the adjective or adverb is more of something
- Being made more intense.
- Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
- (agriculture, economics) Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land.
- Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
- Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
- Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
- (linguistics) Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.
- (medicine) Chiefly in intensive care: of care or treatment: involving a great degree of life support, monitoring, and other forms of effort in order to manage life-threatening conditions.
- characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form
- tending to give force or emphasis
- of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor
- (education) A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.
- A thing which makes something more intense; specifically (linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense than the root on which it is built.
- a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
- make bigger or better or more complete
- line or stuff with soft material
- write all the required information onto a form
- make fat or plump
- become round, plump, or shapely
- supplement what is thought to be deficient
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fill, out.
- (transitive) To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
- (intransitive) To have one's physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight.
- powerfully or vigorously
- (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
- (now literary) With much physical force, power, or strength; also, with divine or superhuman power or strength.
- (now chiefly informal) To a great extent; extremely, greatly.
- With much emotional, intellectual, or mental force or power; vehemently.
- (prepositive, before an adjective or participial adjective) Of a characteristic: provided or present to a powerful or strong extent.
- strengthen or make more firm
- make more firm
- support a person for a position
- administer the rite of confirmation to
- establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
- To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
- (transitive, Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
- (transitive) To approve a proposal or nomination.
- (comparative of ‘good’) superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another
- more than half
- (comparative of ‘good’) changed for the better in health or fitness
- (comparative and superlative of ‘well’) wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable
- comparative form of well: more well
- Greater or lesser (whichever is seen as more advantageous), in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
- Greater in amount or quantity
- comparative form of good: more good
- Healed or recovered from an injury or illness.
- to a higher intensity
- to a more central or a more northerly place
- spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
- to a later time
- nearer to the speaker
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
- (figuratively) To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- (rail transport) Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- To one's possession or consideration.
- To the north (as north is at the top of typical maps).
- To an upright or erect position.
- (sailing) Against the wind or current.
- (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
- Towards the source of a river, against the direction of flow.
- To or towards what is considered the top of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically higher.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- From one's possession or consideration.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- (US, bartending) Without additional ice.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- out of bed
- (used of computers) operating properly
- extending or moving toward a higher place
- open
- getting higher or more vigorous
- being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
- used up
- (usually followed by ‘on’ or ‘for’) in readiness
- (US, bartending) Chilled and served without ice; (often specifically) shaken with ice and then strained into a coupe for serving, leaving the ice behind.
- Awake and out of bed.
- (horse-racing) Riding the horse; mounted.
- (of the sun or moon) Above the horizon, in the sky.
- (computing) Functional; working.
- (usually in the phrase up for) Willing; ready.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Next in a sequence.
- Facing upwards.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Raised; lifted.
- Aloft.
- (slang, graffiti) well-known; renowned
- In a good mood.
- (of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
- Well-informed; current.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Built, constructed.
- (slang) Erect.
- On or at a physically higher level.
- (predicative only) Finished, to an end
- (by extension) Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- (predicative only) Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Standing; upright.
- raise
- (computing, slang, transitive) To upload.
- (transitive, colloquial) To promote.
- (intransitive, often in combination with another verb) To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
- (transitive, colloquial) To increase the level or amount of.
- (transitive, poetic or in certain phrases) To physically raise or lift.
- (vulgar slang) Of a person: having sex with.
- Toward the top of.
- From south to north of.
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Further along (in any direction).
- (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
- Formidable, powerful.
- Very bad; lousy.
- Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
- (especially Ireland, with "for") Prone to a particular temptation.
- Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome
- Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
- causing fear or dread or terror
- intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
- extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
- (engineering) A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock.
- (India, Kenya) An elephant.
- (British English) A large airplane, such as those used for intercontinental travel.
- A wide roll of machine-trimmed paper, ready to be cut into smaller widths.
- (paganism, historical) Ellipsis of mumbo jumbo (“a deity or other supernatural being worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol representing such a being”).
- (Western Pennsylvania) Synonym of bologna (“type of meat”).
- An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing.
- with great force
- slowly as if burdened by much weight
- in a manner designed for heavy duty
- to a considerable degree
- in a labored manner
- indulging excessively
- in a heavy-footed manner
- With a great weight.
- So as to be thick or heavy.
- In a manner designed for heavy duty.
- To a considerable degree, to a great extent.
- In a laboured manner.
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- make strong or stronger
- add nutrients to
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- enclose by or as if by a fortification
- prepare oneself for a military confrontation
- To impart fortitude or moral strength to (someone or their determination, or something); to encourage.
- (wine) To add spirits to (wine) to increase the alcohol content.
- To make (something) defensible against attack by hostile forces.
- To give power, strength, or vigour to (oneself or someone, or to something); to strengthen.
- To support (one's or someone's opinion, statement, etc.) by producing evidence, etc.; to confirm, to corroborate.
- To secure and strengthen (a place, its walls, etc.) by installing fortifications or other military works.
- (military) To install fortifications or other military works; also (sometimes figurative), to put up a defensive position.
- (ambitransitive, linguistics) To undergo, or cause to undergo, fortition.
- To increase the nutritional value of (food) by adding ingredients, especially minerals or vitamins.
- To increase the defences of (an army, soldiers, etc.), or put (it or them) in a defensive position.
- make strong or stronger
- give a healthy elasticity to
- gain strength
- (transitive) To empower; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to enhearten.
- (intransitive) To grow strong or stronger.
- (transitive) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
- (transitive) To substantiate; to corroborate (a belief, argument, etc.)
- (transitive) To reinforce, to add to, to support (someone or something)
- (transitive) To augment; to improve; to intensify.
- make more intense
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- twist into a strained configuration
- screw or turn higher
- (intransitive, colloquial) To blunder; to make a mistake.
- (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of; to ruin.
- (transitive) To raise by turning a rotary handle.
- (transitive) To raise or summon up.
- (transitive) To twist into a contorted state.
- (transitive) To tighten or secure with screws.
- (transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
- (transitive) To make faster or more powerful.
- (automotive) To increase the power of an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the crankshaft.
- (electronics, electrics) To recharge a battery cell/pack at an extremely rapid pace.
- increase or raise
- increase the pressure on a gas or liquid
- To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity
- become more extreme
- To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
- increase the level of
- make (one's senses) more acute
- increase the height of
- To produce something with incredible power.
- (impersonal) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
- (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.
- (ergative) To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
- (intransitive, transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
- move fast, noisily, and heavily
- utter words loudly and forcefully
- to make or produce a loud noise
- be the case that thunder is being heard
- A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
- (literature) Synonym of thunder word.
- The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
- An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
- a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning
- a deep prolonged loud noise
- street names for heroin
- a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
- (figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.
- (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
- (architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- (botany) A buttress root.
- To make stronger or more solid.
- (finance) With respect to debt, to pay off several debts with a single loan.
- (ambitransitive) To combine into a single unit; to group together or join.
- make firm or secure; strengthen
- form into a solid mass or whole
- unite into one
- make or form into a solid or hardened mass
- bring together into a single whole or system
- make denser, stronger, or purer
- cook until very little liquid is left
- make central
- compress or concentrate
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- make more concise
- direct one's attention on something
- draw together or meet in one common center
- (ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
- (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
- To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- put or add together
- calculate principal and interest
- create by mixing or combining
- combine so as to form a whole; mix
- (intransitive, finance) To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.
- (intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
- (transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.
- (transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
- (horse racing, intransitive) Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.
- (transitive, see usage notes) To worsen a situation.
- (transitive, law) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
- composed of more than one part
- composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
- consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts
- (mathematics) Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
- (music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
- Composed of elements; not simple.
- an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)
- (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight
- a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.
- a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts
- (chemistry) A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.
- (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.
- Anything made by combining several things.
- An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
- (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or affix, e.g. "bookshop", "high school" or "non-standard".
- Ellipsis of compound exercise.
- (rail transport) A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
- An enclosure for secure storage.
- (law) A legal procedure whereby a criminal or delinquent avoids prosecution in a court in exchange for his payment to the authorities of a financial penalty or fine.
- (by extension, Philippines) A group of buildings where members of the same extended family live together.
- A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- become more intense
- make deeper
- become deeper in tone
- (transitive) To make more sound or heavy.
- (intransitive) To become deeper
- (transitive) To make lower in tone
- (intransitive) To become more sound or heavy.
- (intransitive) To become darker or more intense
- (transitive) To make deep or deeper
- (intransitive) To become lower in tone
- (transitive) To make more intimate.
- (intransitive) To become more intimate.
- (intransitive) To become more thorough or extensive.
- (transitive) To make more thorough or extensive.
- (transitive) To make darker or more intense; to darken
- (transitive) To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- become more intense
- increase in extent or intensity
- make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
- (intransitive) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
- (transitive) To render more intense.
- make bigger or more
- become bigger or greater in amount
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
- a change resulting in an increase
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- the act of increasing something
- a quantity that is added
- the amount by which something increases
- Offspring, progeny.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- make twice as great or intense
- double again
- double in magnitude, extent, or intensity
- (transitive) To double, especially to double again; to increase considerably; to multiply; to intensify.
- (bridge, backgammon) To double an opponent's doubling bid.
- To double again what was reduced to a single state.
- (intransitive) To become twice as big.
- make capable
- make legally capable or qualify in law
- cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg
- (transitive, zoology) To alter sperm to allow it to fertilize eggs.
- (transitive) To make capable of functioning in a given capacity.
- (transitive, mathematics) To reach maximum throughput on at least part of a constrained network.
- To make more acute, intense, or effective.
- (UK, US, Southern US, dialect, intransitive) To grumble.
- (transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
- (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.
- (transitive) To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
- (transitive) To refine (a skill especially) by learning.
- sharpen with a hone
- make perfect or complete
- A kind of swelling in the cheek.
- A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
- A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
- a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc.
- a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
- make bigger or better or more complete
- line or stuff with soft material
- write all the required information onto a form
- make fat or plump
- become round, plump, or shapely
- supplement what is thought to be deficient
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fill, out.
- (transitive) To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
- (intransitive) To have one's physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight.
- strengthen or make more firm
- make more firm
- support a person for a position
- administer the rite of confirmation to
- establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
- To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
- (transitive, Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
- (transitive) To approve a proposal or nomination.
- (comparative of ‘good’) superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another
- more than half
- (comparative of ‘good’) changed for the better in health or fitness
- (comparative and superlative of ‘well’) wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable
- comparative form of well: more well
- Greater or lesser (whichever is seen as more advantageous), in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
- Greater in amount or quantity
- comparative form of good: more good
- Healed or recovered from an injury or illness.
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- powerfully or vigorously
- (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
- (now literary) With much physical force, power, or strength; also, with divine or superhuman power or strength.
- (now chiefly informal) To a great extent; extremely, greatly.
- With much emotional, intellectual, or mental force or power; vehemently.
- (prepositive, before an adjective or participial adjective) Of a characteristic: provided or present to a powerful or strong extent.
- to a higher intensity
- to a more central or a more northerly place
- spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
- to a later time
- nearer to the speaker
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
- (figuratively) To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- (rail transport) Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- To one's possession or consideration.
- To the north (as north is at the top of typical maps).
- To an upright or erect position.
- (sailing) Against the wind or current.
- (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
- Towards the source of a river, against the direction of flow.
- To or towards what is considered the top of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically higher.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- From one's possession or consideration.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- (US, bartending) Without additional ice.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- out of bed
- (used of computers) operating properly
- extending or moving toward a higher place
- open
- getting higher or more vigorous
- being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
- used up
- (usually followed by ‘on’ or ‘for’) in readiness
- (US, bartending) Chilled and served without ice; (often specifically) shaken with ice and then strained into a coupe for serving, leaving the ice behind.
- Awake and out of bed.
- (horse-racing) Riding the horse; mounted.
- (of the sun or moon) Above the horizon, in the sky.
- (computing) Functional; working.
- (usually in the phrase up for) Willing; ready.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Next in a sequence.
- Facing upwards.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Raised; lifted.
- Aloft.
- (slang, graffiti) well-known; renowned
- In a good mood.
- (of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
- Well-informed; current.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Built, constructed.
- (slang) Erect.
- On or at a physically higher level.
- (predicative only) Finished, to an end
- (by extension) Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- (predicative only) Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Standing; upright.
- raise
- (computing, slang, transitive) To upload.
- (transitive, colloquial) To promote.
- (intransitive, often in combination with another verb) To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
- (transitive, colloquial) To increase the level or amount of.
- (transitive, poetic or in certain phrases) To physically raise or lift.
- (vulgar slang) Of a person: having sex with.
- Toward the top of.
- From south to north of.
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Further along (in any direction).
- (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
- with great force
- slowly as if burdened by much weight
- in a manner designed for heavy duty
- to a considerable degree
- in a labored manner
- indulging excessively
- in a heavy-footed manner
- With a great weight.
- So as to be thick or heavy.
- In a manner designed for heavy duty.
- To a considerable degree, to a great extent.
- In a laboured manner.
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- (nautical) The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
- An overwhelming blow.
- (soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
- An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
- (genetics) The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
- A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
- (genetics) A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
- (film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
- a blow that knocks the opponent off their feet
- Greater in size or power.
- Of high standard or quality.
- Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
- (astronomy, of a planet in the Solar System) Having a wider orbit around the Sun; typically with respect to the Earth.
- (anatomy, medicine) Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.
- (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.
- (taxonomy) More comprehensive.
- (botany) (of a calyx) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part.
- (superior to) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
- Greater or better than average.
- (botany) (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.
- Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
- (botany) (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.
- (typography) Printed in superscript.
- Located above or out; higher in position.
- Higher in rank, status, or quality.
- having a higher rank
- of or characteristic of high rank or importance
- (often followed by ‘to’) above being affected or influenced by
- of high or superior quality or performance
- written or printed above and to one side of another character
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) not subject to or influenced by
- having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit
- The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
- (Scots law, historical) One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.
- The senior person in a monastic community.
- (printing) A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
- one of greater rank or station or quality
- a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character
- the head of a religious community
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- Powerful; energetic.
- Changing; active; in motion.
- (computing) Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.
- Able to change and adapt.
- (grammar) Of a verb: not stative, but fientive; indicating continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (music) Having to do with the volume of sound.
- Pertaining to dynamics, the branch of mechanics concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
- of or relating to dynamics
- characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality
- (used of verbs (e.g. ‘to run’) and participial adjectives (e.g. ‘running’ in ‘running water’)) expressing action rather than a state of being
- (physics) A moving force.
- (grammar) A verb that indicates continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (music) A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.
- (music) The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness.
- A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior.
- an efficient incentive
- Being made more intense.
- Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
- (agriculture, economics) Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land.
- Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
- Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
- Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
- (linguistics) Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.
- (medicine) Chiefly in intensive care: of care or treatment: involving a great degree of life support, monitoring, and other forms of effort in order to manage life-threatening conditions.
- characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form
- tending to give force or emphasis
- of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor
- (education) A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.
- A thing which makes something more intense; specifically (linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense than the root on which it is built.
- a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
- Formidable, powerful.
- Very bad; lousy.
- Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
- (especially Ireland, with "for") Prone to a particular temptation.
- Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome
- Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
- causing fear or dread or terror
- intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
- extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
- (engineering) A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock.
- (India, Kenya) An elephant.
- (British English) A large airplane, such as those used for intercontinental travel.
- A wide roll of machine-trimmed paper, ready to be cut into smaller widths.
- (paganism, historical) Ellipsis of mumbo jumbo (“a deity or other supernatural being worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol representing such a being”).
- (Western Pennsylvania) Synonym of bologna (“type of meat”).
- An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing.