reenforce
Americanverb (used with object)
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Wars tend to reenforce national stereotypes and to harden ideologies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The roof looked water-tight, and he intended to reenforce it later on with the skins of wild animals that he expected to kill—there had been no time yet for hunting.
From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
Increases in appropriations are necessary and will be asked for in order to reenforce these offices.
From State of the Union Address by Herbert Hoover
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
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
Like the ist, the 6th was reenforced with artillery, tanks, engineers, pioneers, medicos, service troops.
From Time Magazine Archive
Around my room, growing stacks of paperback books reenforced my assurance.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
A fairly strong force holding these rocky ridges would be in a position to prevent the Austrian general from reenforcing his armies in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the east.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
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 Talbot Mundy
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 Otto Heller
During battle, these assignments are not changed; vacancies are filled by noncommissioned officers of the platoon or by the nearest available officers or noncommissioned officers arriving with reenforcing troops.
From Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry of the Army of the United States, 1917 To be used by Engineer companies (dismounted) and Coast Artillery companies for Infantry instruction and training by United States War Department
Once you are there, he stations himself close behind you, reenforcing the combined importunities of the shopkeeper and his assembled staff with gentle suggestions.
From Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
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