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
Wars tend to reenforce national stereotypes and to harden ideologies.
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
An invading operation will be difficult to reenforce, in that a second trip of the transport fleet will be required, in order to despatch the necessary number of troops, at such a great distance.
From Operations Upon the Sea A Study by Edelsheim, Franz, Freiherr von
If fraternities or honorary societies honor and reward that sort of leadership, they force individuals into futility, and reenforce the natural temptation to shallow work and display by the powerful pressure of socialized public opinion.
From The Social Principles of Jesus by Rauschenbusch, Walter
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
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
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 Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
Between 600,000 and 700,000 tons of German shipping seized in American ports had already been utilized as troop transports and freighters for reenforcing the American army in France.
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
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 Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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