reenforce
Americanverb (used with object)
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Two fresh Indian brigades, supported by mountain artillery and heavy mortars, were rushed to reenforce Towang.
From Time Magazine Archive
From streets, from factories, from jails went forth thousands of volunteers and conscripts to reenforce desperate, haggard foresters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wars tend to reenforce national stereotypes and to harden ideologies.
From Time Magazine Archive
And so we see in the cross a patience which will bear with men to the utmost, and which will reenforce them as they press toward the goal.
From Understanding the Scriptures by McConnell, Francis John
Whether measures may not be advisable to reenforce the provision for the redemption of the public debt will naturally engage your examination.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 1: George Washington by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)
The talk from Vogel just reenforced how Westbrook himself felt about his game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
This tendency is further reenforced by a generous tax subsidy to companies that pay their employees partially in the form of health insurance.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2012
Like the ist, the 6th was reenforced with artillery, tanks, engineers, pioneers, medicos, service troops.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the doctors' orders, which had been violated last week and would be rigidly reenforced: Ike's midday break of 2? hours for lunch and a nap.
From Time Magazine Archive
Around my room, growing stacks of paperback books reenforced my assurance.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
There are two ways of relieving a weak wing, and the obvious one of reenforcing it is not of necessity the best.
From The Eye of Zeitoon by Mundy, Talbot
The enemy had put down reenforcing rods of tremendous power.
From Triplanetary by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
The lord of the land became the schoolmaster of his subjects, reenforcing the effect of viva voce teaching by means of a periodical published expressly for their moral uplift.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto
The reenforcing of the firing line by driblets of a squad or a few men has no appreciable effect.
From Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) by Department, United States War
The major posts himself so as best to direct the reenforcing of the firing line from the support.
From Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) by Department, United States War
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