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reinforce
/ˌɹi.ɪnˈfɔɹs/
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What does reinforce mean?
verb
- To strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation.
- To emphasize or review.
- To encourage (a behavior or idea) through repeated stimulus.
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It is obvious that they oppose yet reinforce each other,--driving, lashing, spurring mankind on to new conquests or to certain ruin.
The Rochefort squadron did push out, and had nearly caught the AGAMEMNON and L'AIMABLE in their way to reinforce the British admiral.
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It is to be hoped that successive observations of a more methodical kind will gradually reinforce the accuracy of this classification of symptoms.
From this professor, Michael J. Pupin, came the idea of "loading" a telephone line, in such a way as to reinforce the electric current.
How shall art, science, and politics reinforce one another in an enriched temper of mind instead of constituting ends pursued at one another's expense?