Strengthener
[sreŋθənə]
Definition
(noun.) a device designed to provide additional strength; 'the cardboard backing was just a strengthener'; 'he used gummed reinforcements to hold the page in his notebook'.
Typist: Shelley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, gives or adds strength.
Checker: Sheena
Examples
- An advantage this, a strengthener of love, in which even the conjugal tie is beneath the fraternal. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The strengtheners and the lowerers were all clever men in somebody's opinion, which is really as much as can be said for any living talents. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Ryan